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METHOD 



INSTRUCTING CHILDREN RATIONALLX, 



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THE ARTS 



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WRITING AND READING. 



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BY J. NEEF. 



PHILADELPHIA : 
PRINTED rOR THE ALTHOU. 



1813. 









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PREFACE. 



IT is customary for an author to prefix 
to his work an elaborate preface, in which he 
tries to persuade those who read it, of the 
great advantages they are to derive from his 
book ; of the superiority it enjoys over all 
other works on the same subject ; and of the 
glaring defects he has discovered in the 
works of others, but which he has thought it 
his duty to avoid. This fashion, however well 
established it may be, I shall not follow, and 
I hope that nobody will be disappointed, 
should it appear that I do not think according 
to the common fashion. Whether my plan 
be good or bad, better or worse than others, 
is to be decided by those who make a proper 
trial of it ; and to them I dedicate the fol- 
lowing INSTRUCTIONS FOR TEACHERS. 



S TJIE J^IETHOD 

indispensible that you should use exactly the same 
words I do ; if you find any of my expressions not 
sufficiently clear,, you may substitute better. 

Teacher, What do you call a tree that bears 
cherries ? 

Pupils, A tree that bears cherries, I call a cherry 
tree. 

T. Very well. But what have I just now done ? 

P. You have asked a question. 

T. And what have you done ? 

P. I have ans^vered your question. 

T. But what have we done all together t 

P. We have spoken. 

T. When, therefore, I ask a question, what do 
I do? 

P. When you ask a question, you speak. 

T. And when you answer a question, what do. 
you do ? 

F. When I answer a question, I speak. 

T. But what have I done before I spoke f 

P. I do not know. 

T. Well, do you know what you did before yoii 
spoke ? 

P. No, sir. 

T. Did you not think of cherries and cherry 
ti^ees before you spoke ? 

P. Yes, indeed I did, 

T. And dont you think that I also thought of 
something before I asked you the above question ? 

P. It is very likely you did. 

T. But you told me just now that you thought 
of cherries and cherry trees before you spoke, can 
YOU tell me what thinking is- — or, what you do 
when you think I 

P. No sir. 

T. Do you now see cherries or cheny treos ? 



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P. No sir. 

T. But have you ever seen cherries and cherry 
trees before this time ? 

P. Yes sir. 

T. If you never had seen cherries, do you think 
you should know what cherries are ? 

P. I think I should not. 

T. Then you think we know such things only 
as we have seen ? 

P. Yes sir. 

T. Do you know what taste sugar has ? 

P. O ! yes. 

T. Have you ever seen the taste of sugar? 

P. No : You cannot see the taste of a thing, 

T. You know, therefore, something which you 
have never seen ? 

P. Yes : but I have seen sugar. 

T. I agree. But is it by looking at the sugar 
you become acquainted with its taste ? 

P. No: I know the taste that sugar has, be- 
cause I tasted sugar. 

T. Very well. Consequently we know those 
things which we have either seen or tasted. Do 
you know any other way in which you became 
acquainted with things ? 

P. No. 

T. Do you know what sounds are made with 
a bell or with a drum ? 

P. Certainly. 

T. And could you always distinguish the sound 
of a bell from that of a drum ? 

P. Yes sir. 

T. But do you know those sounds because you 
saw or you tasted them ? 

P. (laughing.) No, I know them because I 
heard them. 



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T. Well, how many diiFerent ways have we 
then in which we may become acquainted with 
things ? 

P. Three : seeing, tasting, and hearing. 

T. Could you distinguish the smell of a scented 
violet from the smell of a plumb pudding ? 

P. Yes sir. 

T. But whenever we can distinguish two things 
from each other we know them. You know there- 
fore the smells of scented violets and plumb pud- 
dings. And how did you come by this knowlege ? 
Is it by seeing, hearing or tasting ? 

P. Neither way : it was by smelling. 

T. Very well. But please to tell me again in 
how many different ways we may become acquaint- 
ed with things ? 

P. In four ways. By seeing, tasting, hearing, 
and smelling them. 

T. But if a blind man should come into the 
room, how would he be able to distinguish my 
pencil from my slate ? 

P. I do not know. 

T. (Shut your eyes.) Can you tell me which 
is my pencil and which is my slate ? 

P, No ; but if you let me touch them, I will 
tell you. 

T. By touching them you suppose you would 
learn to know them ? 

P. Yes sir. 

T. So it seems. Then how many ways do you 
now know in which we may become acquainted 
with things ? 

P. Five : seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and 
touching. 

T. And do you know any other way in which 
we can learn to know a thing ? 



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P. No sir, 

T. But are you acquainted with any thing, 
which you have neither seeti, nor touched, nor 
heard, nor smelled, nor tasted ? 

P. No sir. 

T. The means bywhich we learn to know things 
are called senses. Can you tell me now how 
many senses you have ? 

P. I have five senses. 

T. Which are they ? 

P. The sense of seeing, the sense of hearing, 
the sense of smelling, the sense of tasting, the 
sense of touching. 

T. Very well. Our five senses are also called 
sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. But what 
^o you see wiUi ? 

P. With my eyes. 

T. What do you hear with ? 

P. With my ears. 

T. What do you smell with ? 

P. With my nose. 

T. What do you taste with ? 

P. With my tongue. 

T. What do you touch with ? 

P. With my hands. 

T. But can^t you also touch with your feet ? 

P. Yes, sir, 

T. And so you can with every part of your 
body. But whenever you touch any thing you 
are said to feel the thing you touch ; or rather 
the thing you touch causes a feeling or sensation 
in you. Thus when you touch water, a stone, 
wood, or any thing, the thing touched causes in 
you a sensation. And if you are attentive to the 
setisations things cause in you, you perceive that 



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they are different from each other. If, for in- 
stance, you touch with your fingers' ends a pane 
of glass and a piece of wood, the two things will 
produce in you two different sensations, and if 
you pay attention to the two sensations, you will 
feel that they differ from each other ; you will 
distinguish them from one another. But do 
things cause sensations in us only by the touch ? 

P. I do not know. 

T. Cant you distinguish a star from the moon ? 

P. O yes ; a star appears a great deal smaller 
than the moon. 

T. But whenever you distinguish two things 
from each other, you do nothing but feel that the 
sensations which the things produced in you are 
different from one another. The star and moon, 
which you say you distinguish from each other, 
must therefore have caused sensations in you. — 
But how did they produce those sensations in 
you ? 

P. By my vision or sight, I suppose. 

T. You need not suppose it, for you must be. 
fully certain of the fact : for you have certainly 
seen them ; which means nothing else but that you 
felt them with your eyes, or that they have caused 
sensations in you through the medium of your 
eyes. But dont you receive sensations in any 
other way ? 

P. O yes ; by hearing, smelling and tasting. 

T. Very well. In how many different ways 
do we learn to distinguish things from each other ? 

P. In five ; by touch, smell, taste, sight, and 
hearing. 

T. Th^ is to say, things cause sensations in us 
through the medium of our five senses. But a 



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great many things have produced sensations in 
you. Dont you remember any of those sensa- 
tions ? 

P. O yes ; a great many, 

T. You have, therefore, a great many ideas. 
For to have an idea of a thing means nothing else 
than to remember the sensation the thing caused 
in us. And when you direct your attention to all 
the different sensations a thing caused in you, or 
in other words, if you try to recollect them, you 
are said to think of that thing. You see, therefore, 
that to think means nothing else but to recollect 
the various feelings things cause in us. But we 
are not merely able to feel, to distinguish our feel- 
ings, and to remember them, but also to tell to one 
another what we feel, or to communicate our feel- 
ings to each other. Thus when I tell you that 
snow is white and cold, I do nothing else but 
commimicatp thp feeling wKich something that wc 
call snow has produced in me. And as this very 
thing has produced in you sensations similar to 
mine, you understand the meaning of my words ; 
you know what sensations the thing has caused in 
me. When I told you that snow is white and 
cold, did you hear any thing ? 

P. Yes sir. 

T. And what do you call what you feel with 
your ears ? 

P. Sounds. 

T. Very well. It is consequently by means of 
sounds that I communicated to you what I thought 
of snow. But where did those sounds proceed 
from? 

P. From your mouth. 

T. Very true. But sounds that proceed from 
the mouth are called oral sounds. By what means? 



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therefore, do we communicate our feelings to each 
other ? 

P. By means of oral sounds. 

T. But oral sounds are also called vocal sounds. 
Do you know what the voice of a person means ? 

?. (hesitating) Yes, sir. 

T. Well, what does it mean ? 

P. I dont know. 

T. When we say that a person has a fine voice, 
does it not mean that he or she is able to utter fine 
sounds ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. You see, therefore, that the voice of a man 
IS nothing else but his ability to utter sounds. Do 
you know what an instrument is ? 

No, sir. 

T. A hammer is an instrument for striking, a 
needle for sewing, a knife is an instrument for cut- 
ting. Can you no-vr tell mc ^rhat An Instrument 
means ? 

P. It is something by which we can produce 
some effect. 

T. Very true. But there are two kinds of 
instruments. Those instruments which do not 
make a part of my body, such as knives, hammers, 
Scissors, are called tools ; but such instruments 
as make a part of my body, and by means of which 
I perform my various functions, are called organs. 
How many organs of sight or of seeing have you 
got? 

P. Two. 

T. What do you call them ? 

P. Eyes. 

T. But how many vocal orgaas have you got-E 

F. One. 



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T. Do you know any parts of your vocal organ 
and can you name them ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. Well, let us hear you name them. 

P. The mouth, the tongue, the teeth, and the lips. 

T. Very well. But besides these, there are 
several others. The nose, windpipe, glottis, and 
the palate, are also necessary to utter and modify 
our oral sounds. But can you tell me how our 
oral sounds are formed ? 

P. I dont think I can. 

T. Well, then, I shall endeavor to tell you. You 
know that when we breathe, some quantity of the 
air that surrounds our bodies alternately enters 
and comes out of our mouths. But the air does 
not merely enter the mouth, it penetrates also 
through the windpipe into the lungs. Now when 
this air is expelled from the lungs, it passes through 
the windpipe ; and if the glottis be contracted, the 
expelled air forcing itself through the narrow pas- 
sage produces a shock which causes it to vibrate 
with more or less rapidity ; and this vibrating 
or sounding of the air communicates its vibrating 
motion to the surrounding air to a greater or lesser 
distance. You see, therefore, that v/hen we hear 
a sound we feel the shock or collision of two 
bodies, not immediately but by the medium of the 
surrounding air. If we could be placed in a space 
void of air, we should hear no sound, we could 
not become aware of the shock of two bodies. But 
the shocked and vibrating bodies communicating 
their vibratory motions to the surrounding air, and 
this vibrating air coming in contact with, touching, 
and moving our auditory nerves, produces or 
causes in us that sensation we call a sound. But 
do you think our oral sounds are all alike I 

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P. No, sir. 

T. And why do you think that they are not all 
alike ? 

P. Because I can distinguish them from each 
other. 

T. Let us now see in how many ways sounds 
can differ from each other. (Uttering the sound 
0, and making it pretty long; then uttering the 
same sound o and making it short,) what difference 
do you remark between those two sounds ? 

P. The first was longer than the second. 

T. Two sounds may consequently differ from 
each other in duration. (Uttering the sound o 
and making it very loud ; uttering then the veiy 
same sound but making it less loud.) AVhat 
difference have you remarked between the sounds 
you have heard ? 

P. The first was louder or stronger than the 
second. 

T. (Uttering again the sound o but making it 
pretty acute ; uttering; then the sound o^ and 
making it grave.) What difference did you re- 
mark bfitween the last heard sounds ? 

P. The first was shriller than the other. 

T. But did you not always hear the sound o ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. You see then that sounds may differ in du- 
ration, loudness, and elevation. But do you think 
that the sound o and a (as we hear it in fate) are 
also different? 

P. Most certainly, they are quite different 
sounds. 

T. So they are, and if you pay a little attention 
to the action of your vocal organ, you will easily 
perceive that this difference is caused by the dif- 
ference of shape in your vocal organ. Let us now 



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examine how many sounds we employ in speaking ; 
such sounds, I mean, whose difference is merely 
organical. 

A (as heard in late ;) 

o (as heard in bowl ;) 

U (as heard in full ;) 

e (as heard in me ;) 

a (as heard in fat ;) 

2 

(as heard in fall ^) 

U (as heard in but ;) 
i (as heard in fit ;) 

a (gs heard in far j) 

€ (as heard in met.) 

How many different sounds have you heard I 

P. Ten. 

T. And are )'ou certain that thosb ten sounds 
are really different sounds, I mean organically ? 

P. Yes, sir. (It is a matter of course that the 
children must repeat the sounds themselves.^ 

T. We have still some other sounds such as i (as 
heard in fly;) oi (as heard in boy ;) and ou (as heard 
in how.) But each of these sounds is in fact nothing 
else but two of the preceding ten sounds uttered 
in quick succession ; i, for instance, is nothing else 

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than « and e; oi is nothing but aw and e; and owis 
nothing but aw and iiy oo. We shall, therefore, 
distinguish these two kinds of sounds by calling 
the first simple sounds, and the second kind, dou- 
ble sounds. How many different sounds do we 
use in speaking ? 

P. Ten. 

T, How manv double sounds • 



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P. Three. 

T. Utter the sound bo, and then the sound o, 

P. Bo^ (7, bo^ c, bo^ G. 

T. Are those two sounds alike, or do they dif- 
fer from each other ? 

P. They differ from each other. 

T. But how do they differ from each other ? 

P. When I utter the sound bo, I move my lips, 
but when I utter the sound o, I do not move them I 

T. But dont you in either case hear the sound o ? 

P. Yes, I do. 

T. And when you utter the sound bo, do you 
move your lips before or after the sound o ? 

P. I move them before I utter the sound. 

T. But which of your five senses apprizes you 
of the motion of your lips ? 

P. My touch does. 

T. Very well. When, therefore, you utter the 
sound bo, you have two sensations, a tactile sensa- 
tion, and an auditory sensation. That is to say, 
one sensation you receive by the sense of touch, 
imd the other by the sense of hearing. Is it not so t 

P. Yes sir. 

T. To distinguish these two sensations from 
each other in speaking, let us call the auditory 
sensation, sound ; and the tactile sensation, arti- 
culation. Any such sound composed of an arti- 
culation and a sound we shall call an articulate 
sound. The fact is, that ail our oral sounds are 
articulate sounds, but when we utter any of those 
sounds which we have denominated simple sounds, 
such as a, e, o, u, &c. the tactile sensation, pre- 
ceding the auditory sensation, is so feeble, that it 
requires a close attention to perceive it ; for want 
of a better name we shall therefore call it an inar- 
ticulate sound, to distino;uish it from the articulate 



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sound ; that is, from those auditory sensations 
which are accompanied by a strong tactile sensa- 
tion. Let us now examine how many articulations 
we have in our language : bo, po, mo, wo, vo, fo, 
do, to, so, zo, lo, ro, or, tho (sharp,) tho (flat,) 
sho, zho, go, ko, yo, no, ho, ong. How many 
articulations did you count ? 

P. Twenty-three. 

T. How many simple sounds did we utter?, 

P. Ten. 

T. How many double sounds ? 

P. Three. 

T. These articulations and sounds we shall call 
the elements of our spoken language. How many 
elements are there in our language ? 

P. Thirty-six. 

T. It is therefore by means of these thirty-six 
elements that we communicate to each other all 
our thoughts and sensations. A man speaking for 
a whole day, does it by means of twenty-three 
articulations, ten simple and three double sounds. 
This must be a wonderful thing for you, because 
you never paid any attencion to the combination 
of ihese elements. However astonishing this con- 
trivance may be, men have contrived something- 
yet more astonishing. By means of the preceding- 
elements of our language, we ai'e able to apprize 
each other of our sensations, eidier actually felt 
or remembered, when we are within hearing of 
each other. But this means is of no use to me, 
when the person I want to communicate with is 
out of hearing. Men have therefore been obliged 
to recur to some other contrivances, and these I 
am going to acquaint you with, if you desire it. 
This means will enable you to tell a man, distant 
three thou"5and miles from you, whatever vou feel 

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here, with the same ease as you could effect if he 
was in your presence. Through the medium of 
our oral sounds, we communicate to each other 
our feelings and ideas. These oral sounds are^ 
therefore, signs which represent those feelings and 
ideas. And those very same oral sounds, or re- 
presentatives of our sensations, some ingenious 
mertal has contrived to represent by other signs. 
Did you ever see the picture of a man, house, 
bird, tree, or any other thing ? 

P. Yes sir. 

T. And when you saw such a figure or picture, 
did you not by the bare inspection thereof, readily 
perceive what it was intended to represent. — 
When, for instance, you look at this figure, (shew- 
ing the picture of a man) dont you at once perceive 
that it represents a man and not a horse ? 

P. (laughing.) Yes, I do. 

T. Any such figure, which represents a thing 
or an object, in such away that any body who is 
acquainted with the object immediately knows 
that it represents the known object and nothing 
else, may be called a natural view or a natural 
representation. But those signs by which men 
contrive to represent their sensations, and those 
other signs by which they represent their oral 
sounds, or the signs of their sensations are not 
such natural signs or representations. Thus the 
sound shoe represents for us quite a different 
thing from that which it represents for French- 
men. The sound bread represents for us some- 
thing, but for those unacquainted with our lan- 
guage it represents either nothing at all or quite a 
different thing. Such signs, which only by mutual 
agreement represent cenain thingsj are called ar- 
l)itrary or artificial signs> 



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P. But why did not men, who invented these 
letters, contrive to represent their sensations and 
the signs of their sensations by forms or figures 
more natural. 

T. Because it was impossible. When )^ou re- 
present a tree or any other visible object, both 
the thing represented and the representative sign 
arc objects of the same sense, of the sense of sight. 
There is an obvious connexion between the object 
and its sign. But what connexion is there between 
the sound cold and the sensation I experience 
when I touch or grasp a lump of ice. Or what 
connexion is there between a sound and a mark 
made on a piece of paper or on a slate? Sounds 
are objects of the sense of hearing, but their 
representatives were necessarily to be submitted 
to the organs of sight. This is the reason why 
the representative system of our sensations and 
ideas, as well as that of our oral sounds, must 
necessarily be artificial. I am now going to acquaint 
you by degrees with all the various signs by which 
our different simple and double sounds, as well as 
their articulations, are represented. You must try 
to imitate these signs on your slates with exact- 
ness, so that you and every body may distinguish 
them easily from each other. In this manner you 
will learn to write. Can you tell me now what 
writing is ? 

P. To write is to represent our oral sounds and 
their articulations by artificial signs. 

T. But when you have represented a sound or 
a number of sounds on your slates, do you think it 
will be very hard or difficult to utter those sounds I 

P. (smiling.) No, sir. 

T. You think then that it will be an easy matter 
for you to read. 



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P. Yes, sir; if this is what you call reading. 

T. Well, we shall see that by and by. (Uttering 
the sound <?.) How many sounds have you heard I 

P. I have heard one sound. 

T. What sound have you heard? 

P. I have heard the sound o, 

T. Is or is not the sound o accompanied by sixiy 
articulation? 

P. The sound o is not accompanied by any arti- 
culation. (You must not forget what we said 
before about this matter.) 

T. Since the sound o is not accompanied by any 
articulation, is it an articulate or an inarticulate 
sound ? 

P. As the sound o is not accompanied by any 
articulation, it is said to be an inarticulate sound. 

T. Why is the sound o said to be an inarticulate 
sound? 

P. The sound o is said to be an inarticulate 
sound, because it is not accompanied by any arti- 
culation. 

T. A thing may be simple or composed of 
several parts, which component parts are then 
called its elements. Thus a rock of granite may 
be composed of quartz, feldspar, mica, shorl, 
emerald, garnet, &c. These component parts are 
called the elements of such a rock. But how 
many elements has a lump of pure lead or a piece 
of pure quartz ? 

P. Only one 

T. And how many elements has the sound o ? 

p. The sound o has but one element. 

T, As the sound o has but one element, and is 
of course a simple sound, by how many signs will 
you represent it ? 

P. As the sound o has but one element, I will 
represent it by one sign. 



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T. Why will you represent the sound 6 by one 
sigR ? 

P. I will represent the sound o by one sign bCi. 
cause it has but one element. 

T. This is a very good reason, at this stage of 
our enquiries ; but you ^ill find at some future 
period, that it will not \ A^ays hold good. I am 
going now to show you the sign by which people 
have agreed to represent the sound o, [It is 
understood that the letters of our alphabet are as 
neatly as possible formed on a suspended table, 
the small ones and the capital ones, but we do not 
meddle with the capital letters until we are able to 
make the smaller letters with ease, accuracy, and 
despatch.] (Showing the letter o.) This is the sign 
by which men agree to represent the sound o. 
All those signs by which people agree to repre- 
sent their oral sounds are called letters. This 
sign is consequently a letter and bears the name of 
the sound it represents. By what letter will you 
represent the sound o ? 

P. I will represent the sound o by the letter 0* 

T. But what is a letter ? 

p. A letter is a sign by which people have 
iigreed to represent an oral sound. 

T. You ought to add, or an articulation. Repre- 
sent now the sound c, on your slates. (Each boy 
has his slate and pencil and makes the letter o ; the 
different letters are examined and compared with 
the model or original, the defects ascertained and 
corrected.) 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. What have you done ? 

P. I have represented the sound o by the letters* 

T. What does the letter o represent ? 



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P, The letter o represents the sound o> 

T. (When they know how to make the figure 
rcpf-esentingthe sound (?, tolerably well, I proceed 
to the sound a. Such as we hear it in lay, day, 
&c.) (Uttering the sound ^.) How many sounds 
have you heard ? 

P. I have heard one sound. 

T. What sound have you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound a. 

T. What kind of sound is the sound a t 

P. The sound a is an inarticulate sound. 

T. How many elements has the sound a ? 

PI The sound a has one element. 

T. By how many letters or signs will you repre- 
sent the sound a ? 

P. I will represent the sound a by one letter. 

T. Why f 

P. Because it has but one element. 

T. (showing the letter a.) This is the letter by 
which people agree to represent the sound a. If, 
therefore, yo\i make this figure on your slates, you 
represent the sound a^ Represent it. 

P. I represent the sound a by the letter a, 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. What have you done l 

P. I have represented the sound a by the letter cr* 

T. Read now what you have written down. 

P. 0, <?, (?, 0, a, 

T. (uttering the sound ^.) What sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound e» 

T. What kind of sound is the sound e, 

P. The sound ^ is a simple and inarticulate 
aound. 

T. How manv elements has the sound e I 



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F, The sound e has but one etement. 

T. By how many letters or signs will you repre- 
sent it. 

P. By one. 

T. Why? 

P. Because it has but one element. 

T. (Showing the letter ^.) This is the sign or 
letter by which people agree to represent it. 

P. I represent the sound e by the letter e* (It 
is understood that the children in these exercises 
do what they say.) 

'1\ Have you done ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. What have you done ? 

P. I have represented the sound e by the letter e, 

T. Read. 

p. 0, 0, c, (?, fl', (2, a^ (2, e, 

T. (uttering the sound w, such as heard in full.) 
What sound have you heard ? 

p. I have heard the sound u, 

T. What kind of sound is the sound w? 

P. The sound ii is a simple and inarticulate 
sound. 

T. How many elements has the sound u ? 

P. The sound u has but one element. 

T. By how many letters will you represent it ? 

P. By one. 

T. Why? 

P. Because it has only one element. 

T. But what name will you give the letter by 
which you intend to represent the sound oo ? 

P. We shall call it oo. 

T. But we have no such letter. The sign by 
which we represent the sound w, is called you^ 
This is the letter \u (Showing it.) Represent now 
the sound oo. 



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P. I represent the sound oo by the Letter u^ 
(you.) 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes sir. 

T. What have you done ? 

P. I have represented the sound oo by the let- 
ter w, (you.) 

T. Read. 

P. 0,0, o, o, a, a, a, a, e, e, e, e, u. But why 
has not the letter u (you) the name of the sound 
it represents ? 

T. I expected this question. The only reason 
of this is that the sound u (you) is very frequently 
represented by this single letter. 

P. The sound u (you) and 00 are then repre- 
sented by the same letter; they must be however 
very different sounds, since one is articulate and 
the other inarticulate. 

T. Very true. But never mind that, you will 
have to discover many other absurdities before 
you know how to write. Mind only now that 
we shall continue representing by this letter the 
simple and inarticulate sound 00^ until further 
orders. (Uttering the sound ho^ What sound 
have you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound ho, 

T. What is the sound ho composed of ? 

P. The sound ho is composed of the sound 
and an articulation. 

T. Since the sound ho is composed of the sound 
and an articulation, what is it said to be ? 

P. Since the sound ho is composed of the sound 
e and an articulation, it is said to be an articulate 
sound. 

T. How many elements has the sound ho f 

P. The seund ho has two elements. 



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T. Which are the two elements of the sound 
bo? 

P. The first element of the sound bo is an ar- 
ticulation, and the second is the sound o, 

T. Which are the parts of your vocal organ, by 
whose action the articulation of the sound bo is 
effected ? 

P. The lips. 

T. Very true. And let me tell you that such 
an articulation is termed a labial (a lippy) articiu- 
lation. But by how many signs do you intend to 
represent the sound bo ? 

P. By two. 

T. Why so ? 

P. Because it is composed of two elements. 

T. Which are those two elements ? 

P. A labial articulation and the sound o. 

T. Why do you call the first element of the 
sound bo a labial articulation ? 

P. Because it is effected by the action of the 
lips. 

T. Veiy well ; and this articulation is repre- 
sented by this letter, (shewing the letter ^) which 
is called be. But by what letter will you repre- 
sent the second element of the sound bo ? 

P. By the letter o, 

T. Why will you represent the sound o by the 
letter ? 

P. Because, by agreement, the sound o is re- 
presented by the letter o. 

T. But by what letter will you represent the 
labial articulation of the sound bo ? 

P. By the letter b. 

T. Why? 

P. Because, by agreement, this labial articula- 
tion is represented by the letter b* 

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T. Very well. Represent the souhd bo. 

P. I represent the sound bo by the letter b and 
the letter c. 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes sir. 

T. What have you done ? 

P. I have represented the sound bo by the let- 
ter b and the letter o. 

T. By how many letters have you represented 
the sound bo P 

P. By two. 

T. Which are they ? 

P. The letter b and the letter <?. 

T. What does the letter b represent ? 

P. The letter b represents the labial articulation 
of the sound bo, 

T. What does the letter o represent ? 

P. The sound o* 

T. Does the letter b precede or succeed the 
letter o P 

P. The letter b precedes the letter o. 

T. Why does it precede the lettered 

P. Because the articulation of the sound ^(?, re- 
presented by the letter b^ precedes the sound o^ 
represented by the letter o, 

T. (Uttering the sound ba.J What sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound ba. 

T. Is the sound ba an articulate or inarticulate 
sound. 

P. The sound ba is an articulate sound. 

T. Why do you call it so ? 

P. Because it is composed of the sound a and 
an articulation. 

T. How many elements has the sound ba P 

P. The sound ba has two elementSt 



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T. Which is the first ? 

P. A labial articulation. 

T. Why do you call it so ? 

P. Because it is effected by the action of the 
lips. 

T. Which is the second element? 

P. The sound a, 

T, By how many and by ^Yhat letters will you 
represent the sound ba ? 

P. By two ; by the letter b and the letter a, 

T. Well, represent the sound ba, 

P. I represent the sound ba by the letter b and 
the letter a, 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. What have you done ? 

P. I have represented the sound ba by the let- 
ter b and the letter a. 

T. What does the letter b represent ? 

P. The letter b represents the labial articulation 
of the sound ba, 

T, What does the letter a represent ? 

P. The letter a represents the sound a, 

T. Read. 

P. Bo, ba. 

T. (Uttering the sound be,^ What sound have 
you heard t 

P. I have heard the sound he, 

T. What is the sound be composed of? 

P. The sound be is composed of the sound e 
and an articulation. 

T. Since the sound be is composed of the sound 
e and an articulation, what is it said to be ? 

P. An articulate sound. 

T. Why? 



28 THE METHOD 

P. Because it is composed of a sound and an 
articulation. 

T. How is the articulation of the sound be 
effected ? 

P. By the action of the lips. 

T. Since the articulation of the sound be is 
effected by the action of the lips, what is it said 
to be t 

P. A labial articulation. 

T. Why is it said to be a labial articulation ? 

P. Because it is effected by the action of the 
lips. 

T. Does the articulation of the sound be precede 
or succeed the sound ef 

P. It precedes the sound e* 

T. How many elements has the sound be P 

P. The sound be has two elements. 

T. Which is the first ? 

P. A labial articulation. 

T. What is the second ? 

P. The sound e, 

T. By how many and by what letters will you 
represent the sound be P 

P. By two ; by the letter b and the letter e. 

T. Represent the sound be, 

P. I represent the sound be by the letter <^ and 
the letter e. 

T. Have you done. 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. What have you done? 

P. I have represented the sound be by the let- 
ter b and the letter e. 

T. Read. 

P. Bo^ ba, be. 

T. What does the letter b represent I 



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P. The letter b represents the labial articulation, 
which is the first element of the sound be. 

T. What does the letter e represent ? 

T. The sound e, 

T. What sound do both letters represent ? 

P. The sound be. 

T. (Uttering the sound bii) (boo.) What sound 
have you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound bit* (Do not forget 
that the letter u always represents the sound we 
hear in full, bull, wool, &c.) 

T. How many elements has the sound bii f 

P. Two. 

T. Which is the first ? 

P. A labial articulation. 

T. Why do you call it so ? 

P. Because it is effected by the action of the 
lips. 

1\ What is the second element of the sound 
hu f 

P. The sound ii ? 

T. What kind of sound is the sound ti P ; 

P. An inarticulate or a simple sound. 

T. What kind of sound is the sound buP 

P. An articulate sound. 

T. By how many letters do you represent the 
sound ^i^ P 

P. By two. 

T. Why so ? 

P. Because it has two elements. 

T. By what letter will you represent the first 
element ? 

P. By the letter b. 

T. Why ? 

P. Because, by agreement, it is represented by 
the letter b, 

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T. By what letter will you represent the second 
clement ? 

P. By the letter u» 

T. Why? 

P. Because, by agreement, it is represented by 
the letter u, 

T. Represent the sound bu (boo.) 

P. 1 represent the sound bu by the letter b and the 
letter it. 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. What have you done ? 

P. I have represented the sound bii^ by the letter 
h and the letter u, 

T. Read. 

P. Ba^ be^ bo^ bu. 

T. (Uttering the sound oh^ giving o the sound it 
has in the words nob, sob, rob.) How many 
sounds have you heard ? 

P. I have heard one sound. 

T. V/hat sound have you heard ? 

Pe I have heard the sound ob. 

T. What is the sound ob composed of? 

P. The sound ob is composed of the sound o 
(axv) and an articulation. 

T. As the sound ob is composed of the sound o 
(atf) and an articulation, what is it said to be ? 

P. As the sound ob is composed of the sound 
atv and an articulation, it is said to be an articu- 
late sound. 

T. Why is the sound ob said to be an articulate 
sound ? 

P. The sound ob is said to be an articulate 
sound, because it is composed of the sound axi^ 
and an articulation. 

T. How many elements has the sound oh P. 



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P. The sound ob has two elements. 

T. Which is the first element of the sound ob f 

P. The first element of the sound ob is the sim- 
ple sound aiv. 

T. Which is the second element of the sound 
ob^ 

P. A labial articulation. 

T. Why do you call the articulation of the 
sound ob a labial articulation ? 

P. Because it is effected by the action of the 
lips. 

T. By how many letters will you represent the 
sound ob ? 

P. By two. 

T. Why ? 

P. Because it has two elements. 

T. By what letter will you represent the first 
element of the sound ob P 

P. (After some hesitation.) By the letter aw, 

T. This would be very well j but it so happens 
that we have no such letter. 

p. By what letter do you then represent the 
sound azv ? 

T. By what letter did you represent the sound 
P (giving its first sound.) 

P. By the letter o, 

T. Do you think there is any difference betwixt 
the sound o and the sound aw P 

P. Most certainly. They are quite different 
sounds. 

T. You intend also to represent these two diffei- 
ent sounds by two different letters. 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. But I must tell you that you dare not, cannot 
do so. 



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P. Why so ? 

T. Because the authors of our representative 
system of sounds deemed it proper and more con- 
venient to represent those two different sounds by 
the same sign or by the same letter* 

P. By the same letter! why, sir, this is very 
injudicious, or at least has a tendency to produce 
mistakes. 

T. I think so too. But do not drop such a re- 
mark in the presence of learned people, if you do 
not wish to be looked upon with contempt. 

P. Do not those whom you call learned people, 
think it wrong and preposterous to represent two 
different sounds by the same letter ? 

T. They think nothing about the matter. As 
they are instructed in reading and writing just as 
parrots are taught to talk, they cannot account for 
these things. If, for instance, you ask them how 
to write a word or to represent a sound? they will 
name you all the letters very correctly, by which 
the sound is represented. But if you go one step 
further, and ask of them the reason of their acting 
in this way, the only reason they can give you for 
representing a given sound by a certain number 
of letters, isr, that their school masters taught them 
to spell it so. They never analysed our oral sounds ; 
they are, therefore, as ignorant of their elements, 
as a blind-born man is of colors. If, therefore, 
any man of plain common sense should endeavor 
to convince them of the absurdities — (I say absur- 
dities; for though you are now acquainted with 
only one absurdity, you will, before you fully know 
how to write, find that our representative system 
of sounds, includes innumerably more gross ab- 
surdities than this.) If such a man should try 



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to convince them of the absurdities which abound 
in our actual representative system of sounds, 
which they call an alphabetical system, but which 
ought, in truth, to bear the more prober name of 
alphabetical nonsense, he would to a certainty be 
laughed at by all our great scholars. 

P. But how is it possible to know which of the 
two sounds is actually or in every instance repre- 
sented by the letter o ? 

T. Knowledge, my dear fellows, is out of the 
question. The whole matter is reduced to mere 
guess work, as you will discover the further we 
advance. The first element of the sound oby we 
must, therefore, represent by the letter o ; but by 
what letter will you represent its second element ? 

P. By the letter b, 

T. Why? 

P. Because the second element is a labial articu- 
tion, which, by agreement, is represented by the 
letter b, 

T. Represent the sound ob* 

P. I represent the sound ob^ by the letter o and 
the letter b, 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. What have you done ? 

P. I have represented the sound ob by the letter 
and the letter b, 

T. What does the letter o represent ? 

P. The letter o represents the simple sound aw^ 
which is the first element of the sound ob, 

T. What does the letter b represent ? 

P. The letter b represents the labial articulation, 
^vhich is the second element of the sound ob. 

T. Why does the letter o stand before the let- 
ter b ? 



34 THE METHOB 

P. Because the simple sound «w represented by 
the letter o, precedes the labial articulation repre- 
sented by the letter b* 

T. But why did you place the letter b after the 
letter o f 

P. Because the labial articulation, represented 
by the letter b^ succeeds the sound aiv represented 
by the letter o, 

T. (Uttering the sound ab^ a is sounded as in the 
words man, rat, hat, bat) how many sounds have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard one sound. 

T. What sound have you heard? 

P. I have heard the sound ab, 

T. What is the sound ab composed of? 

P. Of the sound a (giving a the second s<5und) 
and an articulation. 

T. Since the sound ab is composed of the sound 
n and an articulation, what is it said to be t 

P. An articulate sound. 

T. How many elements has the sound ab f 

P. The sound ab has two elements. 

T. Which is the first element of the sound ab ? 

P. The sound a. 

T. Which is the second element ? 

P. A labial articulation. 

T. Why do you call the second element of the 
sound ab a labial articulation? 

P. Because it is effected by the action of the 
lips. 

T. By how many letters will you represent the 
sound ab f 

P. By two letters, 

T. Why ? 

P. Because it has two elements. 



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T. By what letterwillyou represent the second 
clement of the sound ab ^ 

P. by the letter b. 

T, Why ? 

P. Because it is a labial articulation which, by 
agreement, is represented by the letter b, 

T. Very well, you expect, no doubt, that the 
first element of the sound ab being a new sound or 
rather a sound different from any of those we 
know how to represent, requires a new letter for 
its representation. But your expectation will again 
be disappointed. By what letter did you repre- 
sent the sound a ^ (« nieans the sound a heard in 
fate, late, &c.) 

P. By the letter a, 

T. Well, this is the very letter by which we 
have also to represent the sound a ; and conse- 
quently the first element of the sound ab. How 
will you now represent the sound ab P 

P. I will represent the sound ab by the letter a 
and the letter b. 

T. Well, represent it. 

P. I represent the sound ab, by the letter a and 
the letter b. 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T* What have you done ? 

P. I have represented the sound ab, by the letter 
n and the letter b. 

T. Read. 

P. ob, oby ob, ab» 

T. (Uttering the soimd eb, such as heard in web, 
hebdomad, debile, debt, &c.) what sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound eb ? 

T. How many elements has the sound eb ? 



36 TIffi METHOD 

P. The sound eh has two elements. 

T. Which are the two elements ? 

P. The first element of the sound eh is the 
simple sound | (giving e its second sound) the 
second element of the sound eh is a labial articu- 
lation. 

T. Why do you call the second element of the 
sound eh a labial articulation ? 

P» Because it is effected by the action of the 
lips. 

T. By how many letters will you represent the 
sound eh P 

P. Bv iwo. 

T. Why ? 

P. Because it has two elements. 

T. By what letter would you represent the first 
element of the sound eh ? 

P. I do not know. 

T. By what letter did you represent the sound e 
in the sound he f 

P. By the letter called e, 

T. Well the sound J is represented by the same 
letter. 

P Again two different sounds represented by 
thg same sign ! 

T. So it is. Bat never mind that. You will see 
more wonderful things yet. But by what letter 
will you represent the second element of the sound 

p. Bv the letter h, 
T. Wfcll. Represent the sound eh, 
P. I represent the sound eh by the letter e and 
the letter /?. 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Y-s, sir. 

T. What have you done t 



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P. I have represented the sound eb, by the letter 
e and the letter b, 

T. What does the letter e represent ? 

p. The letter e represents the sound e or the 
first element of the sound eb, 

T. What does the letter b represent ? 

P. A labial articulation, or the second element 
of the sound eb» 

T. How many diflPerent sounds does the letter e 
represent ? 

P. The letter e represents two different sounds.- 

T. Which are they? 

P. The sound e and the sound e • 

T. Read. 

P. ob^ ob, ab, ab, eb. 

T. How many different sounds are represented 
by the letter o P 

P. Two. 

T. Which are they ? 

P. The sound o and the sound o (^cizv*^ 

T. How many different sounds do we represent 
by the letter a P 

P. Two. 

T. Which are they ? 

P- The sound a and the sound a (such as heard 
in tap.) 

T. (Uttering the sound ub) such as heard in tub, 
mud, bud, &c.) How many sounds have you 
heard ? 

P. I have heard one sound. 

T. What sound have you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound ub, 

T. How many elements has the sound ub P 

P. The sound w^ has two elements. 

T. Which are they f 



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P. The sound I and a labial articulation. 

T. By how many letters will you represent the 
sound lib P 

P. By two. 

T. And why ? 

P. Because it has two elenaents. 

T. Is the first element of the sound ub a sound 
or an articulation t 

P. It is a sound. 

T. Is it different from any of those sounds we 
know how to represent ? 

Pa Most certainly. 

T. You expect therefore to represent it by a sign 
different from any of those we know. 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. But your expectation will again be disap- 
pointed ; the sound u or the first element of the 
sound 7ub^ is represented by the same letter by 
•which we have represented the sound u {06) and 
which we call yiu But by what letter will you 
Tepresent the second element of the sound ub ? 

P. By the letter b. 

T. Why ? 

P. Because the second element of the sound ub 
is a labial articulation, which, by agreement, is 
represented by the letter b. 

T. Well, represent the sound ub. 

P. I represent the sound ub by the letter u and 
the letter b, 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes sir. 

T. What have you done ? 

P. I have represented the sound ub by the letter 
U and the letter b, 

T. Read. 

P. ob^ obj ab^ ab^ eb^ eb^ ub. 



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T, How many different sounds do we represent 
by the letter ic P 

P. Two. The sound u (09) and the sound u* 

T. (Uttering the sound ?7j, such as heard in bid, 
sib, rib) what sound have }'ou heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound 'ib» 

T. How many elements has the sound ib P 

P. Two. 

T. Which are they ? 

P. The sound i (z represents the sound heard in 
rib, bib) and a labial articulation. 

T. Do you think the sound i is different from 
any of those sounds %ve know how to represent? 

P. Most certainly. 

T. I think so too. I must moreover tell you 
that it is represented by this sign, which is called 
the letter i (giving z its usual name). But by what 
sign will you represent the second element of the 
sound ib P 

P. By the letter b. 

T. Well, represent the sound ib. 

P. I represent the sound ib by the letter z and 
the letter b. 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. What have you done ? 

P. I have represented the sound ib by the letter 
i and the letter b, 

T. Read. 

P. 0/;, obf abj ab^ eb,tb, ubf ub, ib. 

T. How many sounds do you know now, how to 
represent? 

P. Nine. 

T. Which are they ? 

P. 0, a, e, II, 0, fi, e, u, ?• 

T, How manv articulations ? 



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p. One. 
T. What kind ? 
P. A labial articulation. 

T. (Uttering the sound bab,') How many sounds 
liave you heard ? 
P. One. 

T. What sound ? 
P. The sound Imb. 

T. How many elements has the sound bab ? 
P. Three. 

T. Which are they ? 
P. The first is a labial articulation, the second 

is the sound J? and the third is again a labial ar* 
ticulation. 

T. Very well. But clo you think the two articu- 
lations differ from each other ? 

P. No sir. 

T. You think then that they must be represented 
by the same sign ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. So the}/ must. But what do you call this 
sign? 

P. The letter b, 

T. By v/hat letters will you then represent the 
sound bab'^ 

P. By the letter b,. the letter a, and the letter (^, 

T. Well, represent the sound bab. 

P. I represent the sound bab^ by the letter b, the 
letter a and the letter b, 

T. Have you done ? 

F, Yes, sir„ 

T. What have you done : 

P. I have represented the sound bab^ by the let- 
ter b^ the letter a and the letter b^ 

T. Read. 

P. Bab, 



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The sounds beb, bib, bob^ biib^ are then succes- 
sively represented and examined. In proportion 
as the children examine and learn to represent and 
to read our oral sounds on a slate or on paper ; 
they must also learn to read them in a book. 
If our written and printed letters had the same 
shape, this would be useless ; but as, unfortunate- 
ly, this is not the case, it is absolutely necessary 
that children should be acquainted with our print- 
ed letters separately. 

As soon as we are able to represent the preced- 
ing sounds with accuracy and despatch, we pro- 
ceed to the articulation represented by the letter 

P. 

T. (Uttering the sound pa.) What sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound />«. 

T. How many elements has the sound />« ? 

P. The sound /;« has two elements^. 

T. Which is the first? 

P. A labial articulation. 

T. Which is the second ? 

P. The sound a. 

T. Do you think the labial articulation of the 
sowwdpa^ differs from the labial articulation of the 
sound bUy which we have represented by the letter 
bf 

P. Most certainly. 

T. So I think. And let me add, that it is rep- 
resented by this new sign, which is called pee. By 
what letters ao you now intend to represent the 
sound pa ? 

P. By the letter i3 and the letter rr. 

T. Why? 

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P. The sound pa is composed of the sound « and 
an articulation, which precedes the sound a» This 
articulation is effected by the action of the lips ; it 
is therefore a labial articulation ; and as, by agree- 
ment, it is represented by the letter /j I shall repre- 
sent it by the letter p. The second element is the 
simple sound «, which, by agreement is represented 
by the letter a; I shall therefore represent it by 
the letter a, 

T, Very well. Represent the sound /?^. 

P. I represent the sound /?a by the letter j& and 
the letter a, 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. What have you done ? 

P. I have represented the sound pa^ by the letter 
p^ and the letter a. 

We examine then and successively represent all 
the sounds composed of this articulation and such 
elements as we are already acquainted with. And 
when we are able to represent and to read them on 
our slates, we learn also to read them in a book. 
This being done, we proceed to the articulation 
represented by the letter 



T. (Uttering the sound 7na.') What sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound ?;7<3. 

T. How many elements has the sound 7na^ 

P. The sound ma has two elements* 

T. Which is the first ? 

P. A labial articulation. 

T. Why do you call it so ? 

P. Because it is effected by the action of th^ 
lips. 



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T. Which is the second element ? 

P. The simple sound a. 

T. By how many letters will you represent the 
sound ma ? 

P. By two. 

T. Why ? 

P. Because it has two elements. 

T. Do you think the labial articulation of the 
sound ma differs from that of the sound ba or pa? 

P. Certainly, I do. 

T. And so do I. This new articulation is happily 
represented by a new sign (showing the letter in) 
which is called the letter m. By what letters do 
you propose to represent the sound ma ? 

P. By the letter m and the letter a. 

T. Well, let me see you do it. 

P. I represent the sound ma by the letter m and 
the letter a. 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. What have you done ? 

P. I have represented the sound ma by the letter 
m and the letter a, 

T. What does the letter m represent ? 

P. The labial articulation of the sound 7na. 

T. What does the letter a represent? 

P. The simple sound of the sound ma. 

T. Why have we placed the letteii,m before the 
letter a ? 

P. Because the labial articulation represented by 
the letter ???, precedes the sound a, represented by 
the letter a. 

We then successively examine and represent the 
different sounds falling under this head, as they 
are marked in the book. And we learn to read 
them also in a book, as a matter of course. How 



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44. THE METHOD 

the analysis and representation is conducted^ the 
^Qxmdpump may serve as a model. 

T. (Uttering the sound pump,) How many 
sounds have you heard ? 

P. One. 

T. What sound ? 

P. The sound pump* 

T. By how many and by what letters will you 
represent the sound pump? 

P. I will represent the sound pump by four let- 
ters ; the letter/?, the letter u, the letter w, and the 
letter/?. 

T. Why ? 

P. The sound pump is composed of the sound 
and three articulations. It has, consequently, four 
elements, and as each element is represented by 
one letter, the whole sound must be represented by 
four letters. The first element of the sound pump 
is effected by the action of the lips, it is therefore a 
labial articulation, which by agreement is repre- 
sented by the letter/?. The second element is the 
sound 7^f, which by agreement is represented by the 
letter «. The third element is effected by the 
action of the lips, it is consequently a labial arti- 
culation, which by agreement is represented by 
the letter 7n ; the fourth element is also effected by 
the action of the lips, it is therefore a labial articu- 
lation, which by agreeme^it is represented by the 
letter p, 

T. Well, represent the sound pump* 

P. I represent the sound pump^ by the letter /?, 
the letter m, the letter w, and the letter p, 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. What have you done ? 

P. 1 have represented the sound pump by^ Sjc. 



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Having done with the preceding- sounds and ar- 
ticulations, we proceed to the articulation repre- 
sented by the letter 

W. 

T. (Uttering the word zva.) What sound have 
.'ou heard f 

P. I have heard the sound zva, 

T. What kind of sound is the sound wa P 

P. An articulate sound. 

T. Why do you call it so ? 

P. Because it is composed of an articulation 
and the sound a. 

T. How is the articulation of the sound wa 
effected ? 

P. By the action of the lips. 

T. As it is effected by the action of the lips, 
what do you call it? 

P. A labial articulation. 

T. But does this labial articulation differ from 
any of those we have learned to represent ? 

P. Yes, it does. 

T. Very true. And for this reason it is repre* 
sented by this new sign, called a double yu* 

P. This is a queer name ! 

T. Never mind that. We shall see things more 
queer yet. But by what letters will you now re- 
present the sound xva P 

P. By the letter 7V and the letter a, 

T. Well represent it. 

P. I represent the sound xva by the letter w and 
the letter a, 

T. Read. 

P. Wo, 

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and in our books all the sounds falling under this 
head, we proceed to the articulation represented 
by the letter 

D. 

T. Uttering the sound do {o always represents 
the sound heard in so^ lozv^ foe^ roe ; these letters 
do^ do not therefore represent the sound doOf but 
the sound doe. Our first representation must be 
as regular as the imperfection of our system ad- 
mits. It will be time enough to puzzle them with 
our unaccountable irregularities, when they know 
how to represent their oral sounds in this some- 
what regular way.) Thus the letters o a e u and 
in the sequel i, always represent their first sounds 
when not succeeded by an articulation as in bo^ 
wa, me, yu. Whereas they constantly represent 
their second sounds when preceding an articula- 
tion, as in web, rap, sip, &c. &c. What sound 
have you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound do> 

T, What kind of sound is the sound do f 

P. An articulate sound. 

T. Why do you call it so I 

P. Because it is composed of the sound o and 
an articulation. 

T. But how is the articulation of the sound do 
effected t 

P. (Considering.) By the combined action of 
the tongue and palate. 

T. Very well. Such an articulation is called a 
palato-lingual or a palato-tonguy articulation. But 
do you think this articulation different from arty 
of those we know how to represent t 

Pw Most certainly. 



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T. Very true, and for this reason we represent 
it by this new letter which is called dee. By what 
letters will you now represent the sound do P 

P. By the letter d and the letter o, 

T. Well, do so. 

P. I represent the sound do by the letter d and 
the letter o. 

All the different sounds falling under this head 
are then analysed and represented such as they 
are marked in the reading book ; which being 
done we proceed to the articulation represented 
by the letter 

T. 

T. (Uttering the sound ta,) What sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound i€i, 

T. What kind of sound is the sound ta P 

P. The sound ta is an articulate sound. 

T. Why do you call it so ? 

P. Because it is composed of a simple sound 
and an articulation. 

T. How is its articulation effected ? 

P. By the combined action of the tongue and 
palate. 

T. Since it is effected by the combined action 
of the tongue and palate, what is it said to be f 

P. A palato -lingual articulation. 

T. But does this articulation really differ from 
any of those we know how to represent ? 

P. Certainly it does. 

T. I think so too. This is the sign, (shewing 
and naming the letter ?) by which this palato-lin- 
gual articulation is represented. But how will 
you represent the sound ta P 



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P. I will represent the sound ta by the letter t 
and the letter a, 

T. Why? 

P. The sound ta is composed of the sound a and 
one articulation. It has consequently two ele- 
ments and must be represented by two letters. 
The first element of the sound ta is effeeted by 
the combined action of the palate and the tongue, 
it is consequently a palato-lingual articulation, 
and, by agreement, it is represented by the letter 
f. The second element of the sound ta is the 
simple sound g, which, by agreement, is repre- 
sented by the letter a. 

T. Very well. Represent the sound ta, 

P. I represent the sound ta^ by the letter t and 
the letter a. 

After having analysed, represented, and learned 
to read all the sounds falling under this head, we 
proceed to the articulation represented by the 
letter 

F. 

T. (Uttering the soundycf.) What sound have 
you htard ? 

P. The soundy«. 

T. What kind of sound is the soundy« f 

P. An articulate sound. 

T. Why do you call it so ? 

P. Because it is composed of the sound a and 
an articulation. 

T. How is its articulation effected? 

P. By the combined action of the teeth and lips. 

T. Very true^ and, for this reason, it is called 
^ dtnto-labial or a tooth-lippy articulation. This 
sign, (shewing and naming the letter f^) repre- 



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sents this dento-labial articulation. But how will 
you represent the soundya f 

P. By the letter^ and the letter a, 

T Why? 

P. The sound fa is composed of the sound a 
and an articulation. It has consequently two ele- 
ments, and must be represented by two letters. 
Its first element is effected by the combined action 
of the teeth and lips ; it is consequently a dento- 
labial articulation, which by agreement is repre- 
sented by the letter jC Its second element is the 
simple sound «, which, by agreement, is repre- 
sented by the letter a, 

T. Well represent the soundy«. 

P* I represent the sound fa by the letter/* and 
the letter a. 

It is not necessary that every sound to be repre- 
sented should be analysed so minutely. The only 
thing of real importance is that the children should 
acquire, by sufficient practice, the ability of ana- 
lysing them whenever required. But the utmost 
attention should be paid to the formation of the 
letters. If the letters are made in a slovenly, 
careless manner, it is almost impossible to distin- 
guish them from each other and consequently to 
read well. Children must be taught to form their 
kttersr well, till they have acquired the habit of 
doing so. — After having represented and read all 
the sounds falling under this head, we proceed to 
the articulation represented by the letter 

V. 

T. (Uttering the sound va?) What sound have 
Tou heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound va. 

T. What kind of sound is the sound va ^ 

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50 THE METHOD 

p. An articulate sound, 

T. Why do you call it so ? 

P, Because it is composed of the sound a and 
an articulation. 

T. How is its articulation effected ? 

P. By the combined action of the teeth and lips. 

T. Very well. But what name will you give it \ 

P. I will call it a dento-labial articulation. 

T. It is the right name ; and this (shewing and 
naming the letter v) is the sign or letter by which 
it is represented. But by how many and by what 
letters will you represent the sound va ? 

P. I will represent the sound va by two letters, 
the letter i) and the letter a, 

T. Why? 

P. The sound va is composed of the sound a 
and a dento-labial articulation. It has consequent- 
ly two elements and must be represented by two 
letters. The first element is a dento-labial articu- 
lation, which by agreement is represented by the 
letter v ; the second element is the sound a, which 
by agreement is represented by the letter a, 

T. Well ; represent the sound va. 

P. I represent the sound va by the letter v and 
the letter a. 

After having represented all the sounds falling 
imder this head, we proceed to the articulation 
represented by the letter 

S. 

T. (Uttering the sound sa,} What sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound sa ? 
T. What sound is the sound sa* 
P. An articulate sound. 
T. Why do you call it so ? 



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P. Because it is composed of the sound a and 
an articulation. 

T. What kind of articulation ? 

P. (Reflecting.) A pahuo-lingual articulation. 

T. Why do you call it so t 

P. Because it is effected by the combined action^ 
of the palate and the tongue. 

T. ^^ery well. But is this articulation really 
different from any of those we have learned to 
represent ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. So it is, and tlierefore we shall represent it 
by this new sign (showing and naming the letter 
^.) By how many and by what letters will you 
now represent the sound sa ? 

P. By two letters, the letter s and the letter a, 

T. Well, do so. 

P. I represent the sound sa by the letter s and 
the letter a. 

After having represented and learned to read 
both on our slates and in our books all the various 
sounds falling under this head, we proceed to the 
articulation represented by the letter 

G. 

T. (Uttering the sound ga.^ What sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound ga, 

T. What sound is it ? 

P. An articulate sound. 

T. Why do you call it so ? 

P. Because it is composed of the sound a and an 
articulation. 

T. How is its articulation effected ? 

Po ^y the tongue and palate. 



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T. Since it is effected by the combined action of 
the tongue and palate, what name will you give it I 

P. I will call it a palato-iingual articulation. 

T. But is this articulation really different from 
any of those we have learned to represent ? 

P. I think it is. 

r. It is so^and for this reason we shall represent 
it by this new sign (showing and naming the letter 
^.) How are you now going to represent the 
sound ga f 

P. By the letter^ and the letter a, 

T. Well, do so. 

P. I represent the sound ^ar, by the letter g and 
the letter a. 

(This letter constantly represents in this regu- 
lar way, the articulation which it represents in 
the words, give, get, gig, gibbous, geese, geld, go, 
good, Sec. and not that which it represents in gem, 
genus, gin, &c. 

In the latter words ^represents two articulations 
totally different from the articulation of go, gad, 
&;c. and therefore it will make its appearance, 
vested with the latter power, among the irregulari- 
ties of the consonants. After having learned to 
represent and to read all the sounds falling under 
this head, we proceed to the articulation repre- 
sented by 

Z. 

(Uttering the sound 20.) What sound have you 
heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound 20. 
T. What kind of sound is the sound zo > 
P. The sound zo is an articulate sound, 
T. Why do you call it so ? 



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P. Because it is composed of the sounds and an 
articulation. 

T. How is its articulation effected and what do 
you call it ? 

P. It is eifected by the combined action of the 
tongue and palate, and is consequently a palato- 
lingual articulation. 

T. Very well. But is it different from any of 
those we have hitherto learned to represent ? 

P. Most certainly. 

T. Therefore we shall represent it by this new 
sign, called the letter zed. But by how many and 
by what letters will you represent the sound zo.^ 

P. By the letter z and the letter o. 

T. Very well, do so. 

P. I represent the sound zo by the letter z and 
the letter o, 

r. Have you done ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. What have you done ? 

P. I have represented the sound zo, by the letter 
z and the letter o. 

After having learned to represent and to read 
all the sounds falling under this head, we proceed 
to the articulation represented by the letter 

T. (Uttering the sound ka,) How many soimds 
have you heard ? 

P. One sound. 

T. What kind of sound is the sound ^a ? 

P. An articulate sound. 

T. Why do you call it so ? 

P. Because it is composed of the sound a and 
au articulation. 

T, How is this articulation effected ? 



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P. By the combined action of the palate and 
tongue. 

T. What do you call it ? 

P. A palato -lingual articulation. 

T. Is it really different from any of those we 
have learned to represent ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. We must therefore represent it by this new 
sign (showing and naming the letter i.) But by 
"what letters will you represent the sound ka ! 

P. By the letter k and the letter a, 

T Well, do so. 

1 he children then represent the sound ka^ and 
by succession all the various sounds falling under 
this head. Which being done, we proceed to the 
articulation represented by the letter 

R, 

CPreceding a sound. J 

T. (Uttering the sound ro.) W^hat sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard he sound re. 

T. What kind of sound is it ? 

P. An articulate sound. 

T. Why do you call it so ? 

P. Because it is composed of an articulation and 
the sound o. 

T. How is its articulation effected ? 

P. By the combined action of the palate and 
tongue. 

T. What do you call it ? 

P. A palato-lingual articulation .^ 

T. Do you think this articulation differs from 
any of those articulations which we have learned 
to represent? ^ 

P. Yes, sir. 



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T. So it does, and therefore we shall represent 
it by this new sign (showing and naming the letter 
r.) How will you now represent the sound ro ? 

P. Bv the letter r and the letter o, 

T. Well, do so. 

After having done with the sounds including 
this articulation, we proceed to the articulation 
represented by the letter 

R, 

C Succeeding a sound ; and the sound a as heard in 
the xvords^ far, mar, par, tar, ^c,J 

T. (Uttering the sound a^O What sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound ar. 

T. What sound is the sound ar ? 

P. The sound ar is an articulate sound. 

T. How is the articulation effected? 

P. (Trying.) By the tongue. 

T. It is consequently a lingual articulation, and 
is represented by the same sign by which we have 
represented the preceding articulation. But do 
you think the sound itself different from any of 
those sounds we have learned to represent ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. So it is. It is, however, represented by the 
same letter by which we have represented the 
sound a as heard in fate, and the sound a as heard 
in fat. 

P. Three different sounds are consequently re- 
presented by one single sign ! 

T. This is very true. But we cannot help it.. 
How do you mean to represent the sound ar P 

P. Bv the letter a and the letter r. 

T. Well do so. 



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P. I represent the sound oir, by the letter a and 
the letter r. 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. What have you done ? 

P. I have represented the sound ar by the letter 
a and the letter r. 

After having done with the sounds falling under 
this head, we proceed to the articulation repre- 
sented by the letter 

H. 

T. (Uttering the sound ha.) What sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound ha. 

T. What sound is this ? 

P. An articulate sound. 

T. How is its articulation effected ? 

P. (Trying how to articulate.) By a strong as- 
piration or breathing through the glottis. 

T. We shall therefore call it an aspiration, or 
articulation of aspiration. This new articulation 
is represented by this letter (naming and showing 
the letter /z). How will you now represent the 
sound ha ? 

P. Bv the letter /i and the letters. 

T. Well, do so. 

From this articulation we proceed to that repre- 
sented by the letter 

L. 

T. (Uttering the sound la,) What sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound la, 
T. What sound is the sound I^ ? 
P. An articulate sound. 



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T. How is its articulation effected? 

P. Bv the tongue and palate. 

T. What do you call it in consequence of that? 

P. A palato-lingual articulation. 

T. Very well. This new articulation is repre- 
sented by the letter called el (shewing at the same 
time the letter /.) How will you now represent 
the sound la ? 

P. By the letter / and the letter a, 

T. Well, do so. 

P. I represent the sound la by the letter / and 

the letter a. • i j 

After having represented all the sounds, includ- 
ing: this articulation ; we proceed to the articula- 
tion represented by the letter 

N. 

T. (Uttering the sound na,^ What sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound na, 

T. What kind of sound is the sound na? 

P. An articulate sound. 

T. How is its articulation effected ? 

P. By the combined action of the tongue and 
palate. 

T. What is it said to be in consequence of its 

formation ? 

P. A palato-linguai articulation. 

T. Very well. This new articulation is repre- 
sented by this new sign, (shewing and naming the 
letter n,) Do yon now know how to represent the 

sound na? 

P. Yes, sir. I will represent it by the letter n 

and the letter a, 
T. Well do so. 



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After having represented and learned to read 
all the sounds incUiding this articulation, we pro- 
ceed to the sound represented by the letter 

I. 

T, (Uttering the sound ^i.) (Z'z/) What sound 
Iiave you heard ? 

P. 1 have heard the sound bi, 

T. What sound is the sound bi (J)ij) ? 

P. The sound bi is an articulate sound. 

T. Why do you call it so ? 

P. Because it is composed of an articulation and 
the sound i, 

T. As to the articiUation you know what it is 
and you know by what sign it is represented. But 
what kind of sound is the sound i, 

P. A double sound, composed of the sound 
rt and e, 

T. Very well. Now this double sound is repre- 
sented by the same letter which bears its name. 
Do you know that letter ? 

P O yes, the letter i. 

T. Very true. Represent now the sound hi. 

P. I represent the sound bi^ by the letter b and 
the letter ?'., 

After having represented and learned to read 
all the sounds falling under this head, we proceed 
to the articulation represented by the letter 

Y 

(In yes^ you,, &c.) 

T. (Uttering the sound ya,) What soimd have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound ya. 
T. What sound is thisf 



OP TEACUIXC. &9 

P. An articulate sound. 

T. How is its articulation effected ? 

P. By the action of the tongue and palate. 

T. What do you call it in consequence of its 
formation ? 

P. A palato-lingual articulation. 

T. This articulation is represented by this new 
letter (shewing and naming the letter y.) How 
will you now represent the sound ya. 

P. By the letter y and the letter a, 

T. Do so. 

After having done with the sounds, including 
this articulation, we proceed to the articulation re- 
presented by 

TH, 

(In the^ them, then, with, &c.) 

T. (Uttering the sound the,) What sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound the, 

T. What sound is it ? 

P. Ap articulate sound. 

T. How is its articulation effected ? 

P. By the tongue and teeth. 

T. Very true ; and for this reason we shall c^ll 
it a lingua-dental articulation. But does this ar- 
ticulation really differ from any of the foregoing 
articulations ? 

P. Most certainly. 

T. Very well. But do you form one or two ar' 
ticulations when you utter the sound the ? 

P. (Trying.) I form but one. 

T. You think then that the sound the is com- 
posed but of one simple sound and one single 
articulation ? 

P. Yes, sir. 



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T. And so do I. However I must tell you that 
this simple and single articulation is represented 
by two letters. 

P. By two letters I One single articulation re- 
presented by two letters ! and three different oral 
sounds represented by one single letter ! A won- 
derful contrivance? indeed ! And which are the 
two letters ? 

T. Here they are (shewing t and y^.) Mind only 
that t must always be placed before h. How are 
you now going to represent the sound the ? 

P. By t, h and e, 

T. Well, do so. 

P. I represent the sound the by t^ h and e.» 

T. Have you done ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. What have you don« ? 

P. I have represented the sound the by the let- 
ters ty h and e, 

T. How many elements has the sound the ? 

P. The sound the has two elements, an articu- 
lation and a simple sound. 

T. As the sound the has two elements, by how 
many signs ought it to be represented ? 

P. Why, by two, to be sure. 

T. Why? 

P. Because each of the two single elements 
ought to be represented by one single sign. 

T. But by how many signs have you represent- 
ed it ? 

P. By three. 

T. And why is the sound the represented by 
three signs I 

P. Because one single element of the sound 
the is, by a custom for which I see no reason, re- 
presented by two signs. 



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After having represented all the various sounds 
falling under this head, we proceed to the articu- 
lation represented by 

TH, 

(In thin, thick^ bath,) 

T. (Uttering the sound thin*) How many 
sounds have you heard t 

P. One sound. 

T. What sound? 

P. The sound thin, 

T. What sound is the sound thin P 

P. An articulate sound- 

T. How many elements has the sound thinP 

P. It has three elements. 

T. What are they ? 

P. The first is a lingua-dental articulation, the 
second is a simple sound, the third is a palato-lin- 
gual articulation. 

T. Is there any of these three elements differ- 
ent from those which we have learned to re- 
present ? 

P. Yes, sir. It is the first. 

T. But how is this first element effected ? 

P. By the combined action of the tongue and 
teeth. 

T. But our preceding articulation was effected 
the same way. 

P. Very true, but it was less strong than the 
actual articulation. 

T. You imagine therefore that it ought to be 
represented by a sign different from _that by 
which we have represented the foregoing articu- 
lation ? 



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P. So it ought to be. But the misfortune is that 
due care is not taken of what concerns every one. 

T. And in this instance the regulators of Ian- 
guage have not done what they ought ; for the lat- 
ter articulation, though evidently different from 
the former, they have chosen to represent by the 
very same sign or rather signs. How will you 
now represent the sound thin ? 

p. I will represent the sound thin by the letter 
tj the letter /?, the letter i, and the letter n, 

T. Well, do so. 

P. I represent the sound thin by the letter t^ &c. 

After having represented and learned to read 
all those sounds falling under this head, we pro- 
ceed to the articulation represented by 

SH. 

T. (Uttering the sound sha,) How many and 
what sounds have you heard ? 

P. I have heard one sound, the sound sha» 

T. What is this sound composed of? 

P. Of a simple sound and an articulation. 

T. How is this articulation effected ? 

P. By the combined action of the tongue and 
palate. 

T. It is therefore a palato-lingual articulation, 
and though a single element, it is again represent- 
ed by two signs ; (shewing s and A) these are the 
letters by which people have agreed to repre- 
sent it. How will you represent the sound sha ? 

P. I shall represent the sound sha^ by s^ h and a. 

T. Well, do so. 

T, (The sound being represented.) By how 
many letters have you represented the sound sha ? 

P. By three. 



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'i\ Why ? 

P. Because one of its two elements is, by agree- 
ment, represented by two letters. 

After having represented all the various sounds 
falling under this head, we proceed to the articu- 
lation represented by 

NG. 

T. (Uttering the sound ajig-.^ What sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound ang: 

T. How many elements is the sound an^ com- 
posed of? 

P. The sound a7i^ is composed of two elements. 

T. What are they ? 

P. The first is the sound «, the second is an ar- 
ticulation. 

T. How is the articulation of the sound a?ig ef- 
fected ? 

P. By the action of the lower jaw. 

T. In this case we must call it a maxillar articu- 
lation» But this single articulation ought to be re- 
presented by how many signs ? 

P. By one sign, to be sure. 

T. So it ought. But, unfortunately, it is repre- 
sented by two, which, however, are already known 
to you (showing n and ^) ; these are the two signs 
by which people have agreed to represent this 
maxillar articulation. How are you now going to 
represent the sound ang P 

P. By a 71 g, 

T. Very well, do so. 

After having learned to represent and to read 
the sounds falling under this head, we proceed to 
the articulation, which, if there was any analog^^ 



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ill our incongruous alphabetical system, ought to 
be represented by 

ZH. 

T. (Uttering the sound z/za.) (zh representing 
the flat note of the sharp sh,) What sound have 
you heard ? 

P. I have heard the sound zha, 

T. What sound is it ? 

P. An articulate sound. 

T. How is its articulation effected ? 

P. By the combined action of the tongue and 
palate. 

T. Very well. This articulation, differing froni 
any of the preceding articulations, ought to be re- 
presented by a new sign. But we have unhappily 
no new, no particular sign to represent it, we shall 
therefore represent it by z and h. How will you. 
now represent the sound zha f 

P. By 2 and A and a. 

T. Well, do so. 

P. I represent the sound zha by the letter z, 
the letter /i, and the letter a. 

After having done with the sounds including 
this articulation, we proceed to the double sound 
represented by 

OU, 

(In loiid^ mouthy south ^ &c.) 

T. (boiiS) What sound have you heard r 
P. 1 have heard the sound bou. 
T. What sound is the sound bou ? 
P. An articulate sound, 
T. Why do you call it so ? 

P. Because it is composed of the sound on and 
an articulation. 



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T. By what sign will you represent the articu- 
lation ? 

P. By the letter b. 

T. But what kind of sound is the sound ou^ or 
the second element of the sound bou ? 

P. A double sound. 

T. Very well, and this double sound is repre- 
sented by the two letters o and ii. Consequently, 
how are you going to represent the sound bou ? 

P. Bv the letters b^ <?, and u. 

T. Well, do so. 

P. I represent the sound bou by the letters by o, 
and u. 

After having represented the sounds which fall 
under this head, we proceed to the sound repre- 
sented by the letters 

oi, 

(In voidy 7noily toil, &c.) 

T. (Uttering the sound boi.^ What sound have 
}-ou heard ? 

P. I have heard one sound, the sound boL 

T. What is this sound composed of? 

P. This sound is composed of a labial articula- 
tion, and the double sound oi. 

T. Very well. How the labial articulation is re- 
presented, you already know, and the sound oi we 
are going to represent by the letters o and i. Con- 
sequently, how will you represent the sound boi f 

P By the letters b, c, and i. 

T. Well, do so. 

[I must he allowed here to make a few observa- 
tions on the scheme I have thought proper to adopt 
for teaching children to write and read, in order 
to obviate all quibbling concerning the matter itself 
and the manner I have made use of. 

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Every man who will take the trouble to examine 
the elements of our spoken language, will iind the 
same number of sounds and articulations which we 
have found. In the following words will be found 
our thirteen so\inds, Jade, fed, bowl, bail, far, fat^ 
feet, fit, but, good, toil, thou, bite* That the sounds 
heard in fade, fed, feet, and ft, are really different 
not only in quantity but also in quality, every well- 
tempered ear w ill readily discover. There is how- 
ever another test by which their difference may be 
easily discovered, even by the deaf and dumb. It 
is a fact easily to be ascertained, that the least al- 
teration in the conformation of our vocal organ 
necessarily alters our oral sounds. Now it is im- 
possible to utter the two sounds mate and met, beet 
and bit, without altering the shape of the mouth. 
Our twenty-thr- e articulations will be found in the 
ensuing words : be, me, pet, wet, veil, feeU dead, 
test, zest, so, go, keel, heel, nail, lame, roam, far^ 
thing, the, shoe, measure, sing, yoiu 

Instead of calling the elements of our spoken 
language consonant sounds and vowel sounds, I 
gave them the names of sounds and articulations ; 
because I think that the first denomination is a very 
insignificant and obscure name ; whereas the second 
ought to be applied to all our oral sounds indiscri- 
minately. For a consonant sound means nothing 
else but a sound sounding with another sound, or 
in other words, an auditory sensation causing an 
auditory sensation with another auditory sensation. 
I submit it with all due deference to our learned 
orthoepists to explain the meaning of this name. 
Tine second expression cannot mean any thing else 
but an auditory sensation produced by the motion 
of the vocal organ. All our oral sounds ought 
therefore to be called vowel sounds, because they 



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are all products of our vocal organ. One more re- 
mark before I have done. I have called the vari- 
ous motions, or rather the effects produced by the 
motions of the upper parts of our vocal organ, tac- 
tile sensations, and these tactile sensations I have 
denominated articulations. These motions, like any 
other motion, produce unquestionably an auditoiy 
sensation, or a sound for any organ delicate enough 
to perceive it. This sound however, in most in- 
stances, is nearly imperceptible, and is in fact 
considered as not existing. The only thing we at- 
tend to is the modification or alteration it effects 
upon the preceding or succeeding sound. It is 
therefore only the tactile sensation which we re- 
present, and which is of any importance to us.] 

We are now going to consider the oral sounds 
which we have learned to represent under a more 
important point of view, as will appear from the 
following discussions : 

T. (Uttering the sound mud^ What sound have 
you heard, and how must it be represented I 

P, I have heard the sound mud^ which must be 
represented by the letters w, w, and d, 

T. Very well, represent it. (The sound being 
represented and read as usual.) Does the sound 
mud mean any thing ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. Well, what does it mean ? 

P. It means something that I have seen. 

T. Very true. But do you think the sound mud 
means nothing in the mind of a blind man \ 

P. I suppose it does. 

T. Did you ever see wind ? 

P. No, sir. 

T. And does the sound -wind mean nothing to 
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P. Yes, it does. 

T. Yet you have never seen it ? 

P. No, but I have felt it. 

T. You see therefore that the sound wind mesins 
something to you just as the sound mud means 
something to the blind man. But whatever oral 
sound has a meaning for us we call a word. What 
is therefore the sound mud ? 

P. The sound m,ud is a word. 

T. Why do you call the sound mud a word l 

P. Because it has a meaning. 

T. (Uttering the sound red^ How will you re- 
present the sound red ? 

P. By the letters r^ e, and d. 

T. Very well, do so. (The sound being repre- 
sented.) Has this sound a meaning? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. Since the sound red has a meaning, what is 
it said to be ? 

P. A word. 

T. Why do you call the sound red a word ? 

P. Because it has a meaning. 

T. But to say that a thing has a meaning is to 
say that it is a sign ; and to say that it is a sign 
means that it represents something. The sounds 
w?/<^and rf'^ must therefore be signs of something, 
they must represent something. We can therefore 
say that a word is a sound or a combination of 
sounds that represents something which we know. 
And we know nothing hut our feelings and sensa- 
tions either actually perceived or remembered. 
These feelings and sensations being effects, must of 
course be produced by causes. Our words there- 
fore annot possiblv represent any thir.g besides 
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and their causes. Now what does the word red 
represent? 

P. A sensation or idea. 

T. By which of your organs of sense did you 
receive this sensation ? 

P. By the organ of sight. 

T» Very well, i?^ represents therefore an occu- 
lar sensation. But what does the sound 7nud re- 
present ? 

P. A cause of sensations. 

T. Very true. But what kind of sensations can 
this cause produce ? 

P. Ocular and tactile sensations. 

T. Very well. But how many sounds are each 
of these two words, mud and red, composed of? 

P. Of one. 

T. But a word composed of one sound is said 
to have but one syllable ; and a word having but 
one syllable is said to be a monosyllable. What 
do you call the word mud or the word red? 

P, I call each of them a monosyllable ? 

T. Why ? 

P. Because each of them has but one syllable. 

After having represented the monosyllables we 
proceed to the 

DISSYLLABLES. 

T. (Pronouncing the word melting,^ How many 
different sounds have you heard ? 

P. Two, melt and ing. 

T. Have these two sounds, combined together, 
a meaning ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. If they have, then they form^ what is called 
what ? 



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P. A word. 

T. But how many syllables has this word ? 

P. Two. 

T. Would you therefore call it a monosyllable ? 

P. No, sir. A monosyllable is a word that has 
but one syllable. 

T. Very true. And therefore we shall call this 
word, composed of two syllables, a dissyllable ; 
but as the two sounds form but one word, the let- 
ters by which you represent them must of course 
be joined. Write down the word melting. 

P. M, 69 I, t, if Uf g* 

T. Read. 

P. Melt'ing. 

T. How many syllables is the word melting 
composed of? 

P. The word melting is composed of two syl- 
lables. 

T. What is it said to be ? 

P. A dissyllable. 

T. Which of its two syllables is pronounced with 
the greatest stress, loudest, and most distinctly ? 

P. The first syllable. 

T. Very true, but that syllable of a word, which 
is uttered most distinctly, loudest, or with most 
stress, is said to be accented. Which is now the 
accented syllable of the word melting ? 

P. The first, 

T. (Uttering the word propeL^ How many dif- 
ferent sounds have vou heard t 

P. Two. 

T. Which are they? 

P. Pro and pel. 

T. Have those two sounds, combined together, 
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P. No, sir. 

T. But if I should tell you to push your slates 
or any thing else forwards, would you understand 
that ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. Very well. But to propel a thing and to 
push it along mean exactly the same. I suppose 
you have now a meaning for the word propel ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. And as propel has a meaning, what do you 
call it? 

P. A word. 

T. Write down this woird. 

P. P, r, <?,/>, e, /. 

T. Read now. 

P. Meltings propel. 

T. How many syllables has the v^ord propels 

P. Two. 

T. As the word propel has two syllables, what 
is it said to be ? 

P. A dissyllable. 

T, Which of its two syllables is uttered with the 
greatest stress ? 

P. The second. 

T. What is therefore its second syllable said to 
be? 

P. Its second syllable is said to be its accented 
syllable. 

T. (Uttering the word repel.) How many syl- 
lables has the word repel ? 

P. But what does repel mean ? 

T. It means to push back. 

P. The word repel has two syllables, re 2aid peL 

T. What is it said to be ? 

P. A dissyllable. 

T. Which is its accented syllable ? 



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P. The second. 

T. Write it down. 

P. i?, Cfp, e^ L 

T. Read. 

P. Meltings propel^ repel. 

After having written down and examined and 
ascertained the meanings of our dissyllables, we 
proceed to the 

TRISY1I.ABLES. 

T. (Uttering the v^ or 6. frustrating.^ How many 
sounds have you heard ? 

P. Three, friis^ tra, ting. 

T. Have these three sounds, taken together, 
any meaning ? 

P. No, sir. 

T. When I intend to do or to gain something 
and you hinder me from realising my intention, 
then you are said to frustrate my design or my in- 
tention. As you know now the meaning of frus- 
trating, what is it ? 

P. A word. 

T. Write it down. 

P. Ff r, w, *, t, r, a, t, i, n, g. ^ 

T, How many syllables has this word ? 

P. Three. 

T. Which is its accented syllable I 
' P. The first. 

T. (Uttering the word reprehend.') How many 
sounds have you heard t 

P. Three, rep^ re, hend. 

T. Have these three sounds united a meaning 
for you i 

P. No, sir. 

T. When you do something which displeases 
me and which of course I ordered you not to do, 
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P. Yes, sir. 

T. Well, to blame and to reprehend have the 
same meaning. Reprehend has now a meaning 
for you ; what is it now said to be ? 

P. A word. 

T. Well, write it down. 

P. i?, 6", /?, r, e^ /i, e", 72, d. 

Read, Frustrating^ reprehend, 

T. How many syllables has the word reprehend ? 

P. Three. 

T, What is it said to be ? 

P. A trisyllable. 

T. Which is its accented syllable ? 

P. The third. 

T. (Uttering the word unmindfuL^) How many 
sounds have vou heard I 

P. Three. ' 

T. Have those three sounds united, a meaning 
for you ? 

P". No, sir. 

T. Whenever you do not pay attention to a 
thing, you are unmindful. When you do not mind 
what you are told, and of course soon forget it, 
you are said to be unmindful. Since these three 
sounds united have a meaning, what do you call 
them ? 

P. A word. 

T. How many syllables has this word ? 

P. Three. 

T. What is it said to be t 

P. A trisyllable. 

T. Which is its accented syllable ? 

P. I'he second. 

T. Why do you call its second syllable accented r 

P. Because it is pronounced with more stress 
than the remaining two. 



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T. Write it clown. 

P. f7, 72, 772, ?\ 7Z, ^,yj 7^, /. 

T Read. 

P. Frustrating^ reprehend, unmindful. 

From the trisyllables we proceed to the 

TETRASYLLABLES aiul PENTASYLLABLES. 

T. (Uttering the word iinavoided.') How many 
sounds have you heard ? 

P. Four. 

T. Have these four sounds joined together a 
meaning for you ? 

P. No, sir. 

T. When you are afraid that something might 
hurt you, you shun and avoid it, you try to escape 
it. Unavoided mtims not avoided ; when you have 
not tried to avoid, to escape a dangerous or hurt- 
ful thing or situation, then it is unavoided. Since 
unavoided has a meaning, what is it said to be t 

P. A word. 

T. How many syllables has the word una- 
voided? 

P. Four. 

T. Which is its accented syllable ? 

P. The third. 

T. Write it down. 

P. U^ 72, 12, V^ 0, Z, <f, 6", d, 

T. Read. 

P. Unavoided. 

T. (Uttering the word U7iin habited,^ How many 
sounds have you heard? 

P. Five. 

T. Do you know what an uninhabited house 
means f 

P. No, sir. 



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T. It means a house in which nobody lives or 
dwells. But how many syllables has the word 
uninhabited ? 

P. Five. 

T. A word composed of five syllables is said to 
be a penta-syllable. What do you now call the 
word uninhabited? 

P. A pentasyllable. 

T. "^Vhy do you call it so ? 

P. Because it is composed of five syllables. 

T. \Vhich is its accented syllable ? 

P. The third. 

T. Write it down. 

P. U^ 7Z, 2, 72, /z, a^ b^ 7, t^ 6, d, 

T. Read. 

P. Unavoidedf tnihiJiabited. 

T. You know now that a w^ord may have one, 
two, three, four, or five syllables ; there are even a 
few which are composed of six, and some of seven 
syllables, as you shall find at some future period 
words composed of six syllables, are called hexa- 
syllables, and those composed of seven syllables 
are denominated heptasyllables. All those words 
that are composed of many, that is of more than 
one syllable, are called polysyllables. 

The above matters being understood we pro- 
ceed to 

PUR.ISES, SENTENCES, or PHOPOSITIONS. 

T. Thou must not rnistrust so benevolent a man. 
(The whole phrase is of course uttered very dis- 
tinctly, and each word is then dictated separately 
in the following manner. Thou, must^ not^ mis- 
trusty so, benevolent^ <:/, man. The children must 
be told beforehand, that whatever is pronounced 
together forms one word. They must of course be 



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directed to join the letters forming one word, and 
to leave between two words the usual intervaL 
They must also be told that the first word of any 
phrase must begin with a capital letter. They 
must also be directed to name the letter of each 
word as they write them down, and in order to 
prevent confusion, they must do it by rotation.) 
The phrase being written dov/n, they are ordered 
to read. 

P. (Either one, or all together.) Thou must not 
7mstrust s^o benevolent a man, 

T. How many words is your first phrase com- 
posed of? (The children must of course be told 
previously that a number of words joined together 
form a phrase, sentence or proposition.) 

P. My first phrase is composed of eight words. 

T* Which is the first, second, third, &c, &c.? 

P. Thou^ must^ not^ &:c. &c. 

T. How many monosyllables does your first 
phrase include ? 

P. My first phrase includes six monosyllables. 

T. Which are they ? 

P. Thou., must.^ not^ so^ «, man* 

T. How many digsyilables does your first phrase 
include ? 

P. One. 

T. Which is it ? 

P. 3Itstritst. 

T. Which is its accented syllable ? 

P. The second. 

T. How many syllables is the word be72evale?it 
composed of? 

P. The word benevolent is composed of four 
syllables. 

T. What is it said to be ? 

P. A tetrasvllabie. 



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T. How many different sounds are represented 
by the letter e P 
P. Two. 
T. Which are they ? 

P. The sound e and the sound e > 
T. HoM^ many different sounds are represented 
by the letter o ? 
P. Two. 
T. Which are they ? 

P. The sound o and the sound ». 

T. What is the meaning of the word mistrust ? 

P. I do not know. 

T. When you doubt whether I shall do what I 
promise or engage to do, then you mistrust me. 
To mistrust a man is not to trust him. But what 
is the meaning of the word benevolent? 

P. I do not know. 

T. A man who is willing to please you, who in- 
tends to do good unto you, is said to be a bene- 
volent man. Is it reasonable to be benevolent ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. Why ? 

P. Because, if I try to do good unto you, I shall 
induce you to please me, or to do good unto me. 

T. Very well. Do you now understand the 
meaning of your first phrase ? 

P. Yes, sir. 

T. Let us now examine another and a very im- 
portant point. The above phrase is made up of 
eight words, and these eight words are absolutely 
necessary to express what I want to say. If you 
take any one word away, the meaning of the 
remainder will be either totally changed, or it will 
be impossible to understand it at all. The words 
mutually determine and modify each other. The 

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first word then is determined by the word must ; 
the word 7?iiist is determined by ?iot^ and by mis- 
trust ; mistrust is determined by man ; 7nan is de- 
termined by a and benevolent^ and benevoleJit is de- 
termined by so. In order therefore to learn to 
speak and to write correctly, you must pay all 
possible attention to the meaning of each word you 
employ, and to the position it occupies with re- 
spect to the others. If you neglect these two 
points you will neither understand yourselves nor 
be understood by others. 

It is in this way we write down, read, examine 
and analyse each'of the phrases that you will find 
in the first part of this book, you will easily remark 
that these phrases are made up of such words only 
as are spelled according to the plan laid down. 
This is what I might call the regular mode of 
spelling, though for obvious reasons it little de- 
serves this name. In the second part )^ou will 
find phrases including successively all the irregu- 
larities of the sounds. There for instance, you 
will find the sound represented in the first part by 
0, as in the word so^ successively represented by 
ocif oru^ oe^ eau, ough^ ou^ &:c. But the misfortune 
-is that many words include two, three, four, nay 
five irregularities. Such words I was obliged to 
reserve for the chapter where the last irregularity 
occurs. The word brexver for instance includes 
two sounds irregularly represented. This word 
therefore I could not make use of before I reach- 
ed the irregularities of the sound lu You will find 
all the irregularities classed and distinguished 
from each other. I shall now give some specimens 
of the further manner of proceeding, which will en- 
able vou to follow my track as closely as you please. 



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T. We know now how to represent words and 
phrases, but there are still a great many words 
which we do not know how to write. Hitherto we 
liave represented the sound o by the letter o ; but 
this very same sound is represented in many other 
ways. In those words which we shall first learn 
to write, the sound o is represented by oa. 

P. By oa ! and of w^hat use is the a in represent- 
ing the sound o ? 

T. You want to know more than I can tell you. 
People represent the sound o by the letters o and 
a I this is the only reason I can give you for re- 
presenting this sound thus. How will you now 
write or spell, as people say, the word ajioat ? 

P. By a, f, 1, 0(7, t. 

T. (Uttering very distinctly.) I told them that 
the ship must be set ajioat* — /, told^ tliem^ that, 
the^ ship^ must^ hey set^ afloat, 

[The phrase being written down in the way al- 
ready explained. I order them to read.] 

P. / told them that the ship must he set ajloat. 

T. How many words is your first phrase com- 
posed of? 

P. My first phrase is composed of ten words. 

T. How many monosyllables does it include ? 

p. My first phrase includes nine monosyllables. 

T. How many, dissyllables does it include t 

P. One. 

T. Which is it ? 

P. Afloat. 

T. Which is its accented syllable I 

P. The second. 

T. How many different sounds are represented 
by the letter e P 

P. Two. 

T. Which are they ? 



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P. The sound e and the sound e * 

T. How many different sounds are represented 
by the letter i? 

P. Two. The sound i and the sound i . 

T. In how many different ways is the sound o 
represented ? 

P. In two different ways. By the letter o in the 
word told, and by oa in the word afioat. 

T. By what word is the word /determined ? 

P. By the word told. 

T. By what words is told determined ? 

P. By them and that. 

T. How is that determined ? 

P. By all the words that follow iti 

T. How is ship determined ? 

Pi By the and must. 

T. How is must determined ? 

P. By be. 

T. By what word is be determined ? 

P. By set. 

T. By what word is set determined • 

P. By afoat. 

T. Does the word ship represent a sensation or 
a cause of sensations ? 

P. The word ship represents a cause of sen- 
sations. 

T. Does the word told represent a sensation or 
a cause of sensations ? 

P. A sensation, he. &c. 

[After having written down and analysed those 
phrases which include the words where the sound 
is represented by oa, we proceed to those words 
where the sound o is represented by ow.] 

T. I shall now make you acquainted with those 
words which include the sound o represented 



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by ow, (Reading.) I told him that the boat must 
be beloxv. 

How do you spell the word beloxv ? 

P. B^e^ /, {?, zv, 

T. Very well. All the other words you know 
how to spell. Write the phrase down. 

P. /, told^ hiniy that^ the., hoat^ must^ be^ beloxv. 

T. (The phrase being written down and read.) 
How many words is your first, second, or third;> 
&c. phrase composed of? 

P. My first phrase is composed of nine words. 

T. How many monosyllables does it include ? 

P. Eight. 

T. How many dissyllables does it include i" 

P. One. 

T. Which is it? 

P. The word below. 

T. Which is its accented syllable ? 

P. The second. 

T. How many different sounds are repres^ented 
by the letter i ? 

P. Two. 

T. Which are they ? 

P. The sound i and the sound i. 

T. In how many different ways is the sound o 
represented ? 

T. The sound o is represented in three different 
ways. 

T. Which are they t 

P. By the letter o, by the letters o and «, and 
by the letters o and xv. 

T. How many elements is the sound boat com- 
posed of? 

P. The sound boat is composed of three ele- 
ments. 

T. What are they ? 



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P. The first is a labial articulation, the second 
is a simple sound, and the third is a lingua-palatal 
articulation. 

T. Since the sound boat has three elements, hj 
hew many signs ought it to be represented ? 

P. Bv three. 

T. By how many is it represented ? 

P. By four. 

T. Why ? 

P. Because the simple sound o^ which is one of 
its elements, is represented by two signs or letters^ 
by and a. 

T. What does the word boat represent ? 

P. A cause of sensations, &c. &c. 

T. What does the word /represent? 

P. The word / represents the cause which pro- 
duced the sensation represented by the word told. 

T. What does the word told represent ? 

P. The word if (5/<^ represents the sensation pro- 
duced by the being represented by the word /, and 
perceived by the being represented by the word 
him^ &c. &c. 

T. How are the words determined by each 
other ? 

P. The word /is determined by told; told is, 
determined by Am and ?/z6f?; that is determined 
by the boat must be below ; boat is determined by 
the and rnust ; must is determined by be^ and be is 
determined by beloxv. 

It is in this way we analyse and examine every 
word and phrase which we write down. Whenever 
you find one of the following expressions, ough 
'^ 0^ ai = a^ exv = ?/, &c. you have only to tell 
your scholars : In the following new v/ords the 
sound will be represented by the letters oiigh^ 
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fii, or the sound u (po) will be represented by ew ; 
and then before you dictate the phrase you single 
out the word including the specified irregularity 
and cause it to be spellt d. 

After we have done with the irregularities of 
the sounds, we proceed to the articulations irre- 
guhirly represented. You will then find gh = y; 
p/i = f; c = k ; c -= s ; c = z ; s = sh ; s = zh ; 
u = I ; tt =^ t. These expressions mean that the 
articulation represented by the letter^in the words 
Jbe^ full-, &c. is represented by gh in the words 
laugh., cough^ &c. &c. that the same articulation 
is represented by ph^ in the words prophet^ philo- 
sophy^ philanthropy f &c. &c. 

K I have no doubt but many will enquire how and 
when grammar is to be taught, and what gram- 
mar is preferable. Before I answer these enqui- 
ries, let us examine what is to be understood by 
teaching grammar. To teach grammar means 
nothing else than to teach how to speak and write 
grammatically or correctly. But what does that 
mean, to speak correctly ? What do 1 do when I 
speak correctly, and first what do I do when I 
speak ? When I speak I communicate to beings 
organized like me, my feelings either actually per- 
ceived or remembered. To effect this purpose, I 
make use of certain signs, either audible or visible, 
called words. These words must therefore repre- 
sent either my feelings or the causes which pro- 
duce my feelings. But for what purpose do I speak ? 
To be understood. And how can I be understood I 
By representing my feelings and their causes by 
such signs as, by mutual agreement, those I 
speak to, would use to represent them with. I 
feel, for instance, a certain disagreeable sensation, 
I feel that a being, organized like myself, is in pos- 



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session of something which I know by my experi- 
ence is capable of freeing me from my disagreeable 
sensation ; I feel an inclination to communicate 
to that being my sensations, and I say : I am very 
hungry, give me that bread you have in your hand. 
If the signs I employ to express my feelings are 
the very signs which the being that perceives them 
would make use of to represent the very same sen- 
sations, which 1 intend they should represent, the 
being who perceives my signs, will understand 
them, and will thus be able to satisfy my wants. 
To speak correctly means nothing else but to speak 
intelligibly ; it means, to speak so that all those 
who perceive my signs, readily understand their 
meanings. If, therefore, you want to teach me 
speaking and writing correctly, intelligibly, and 
gramaiatically, you must teach me the signs by 
which a certain set of beings who feel like me have 
agreed to represent their feelings and the causes 
of their feelings. Thib is the most important point, 
but unfortunately this all-important point is too 
little attended to. The second point which I must 
know, in order to speak correctly or grammatically^ 
is the place I have to give to each sign which I 
employ. If you teach me by what signs I have to 
represent my feelmgs, and what place I have to 
give to those signs, you teach me to speak correct- 
ly, to speak intelligibly, or, if you choose, to speak 
grammatically. *"•• But is it not necessary to know 
that there are 8, 9, or 10 parts of speech, called 
nouns, pronouns, modifiers, adjectives, verbs, ad- 
verbs, conjunctions, propositions, interjections ; 
that a verb may be in the infinitive, subjunctive, 
indicative, potential, or imperative mood, &c. &c. 
&C. f " No. If you are wise, if you want to con- 
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care and tuition ; teach them instead of this arti- 
ficial and unmeaning series of indefinite terms, di- 
rect their attention to the sensations which they re- 
ceive, and to the causes of their sensations, teach 
them the signs by which these feelings and their 
causes are represented ; teach them how to place 
them correctly either in speaking or writing; teach 
them how to utter them and to write them cor- 
rectly, and you will have taught them every thing 
they want to know and you can teach them. " But 
what shall we do with the numerous systems of 
grammar ?" You may make a bonfire of them if you 
please, or preserve them for a wiser posterity as a 
monument of errors overcome. In one word em- 
ploy them as you please, but be sure not to pester 
and befool your scholars with them. **■ But is it 
possible to learn to speak and to write correctly 
without the assistance of grammar, without study- 
ing grammar ?" Let us try. I want to tell you 
that 1 am thirsty. And do you imagine that in or« 
der to tell you so, I must know that /is a per- 
sonal pronoun, of the first person, in the singular 
number; of the masculine, feminine or neuter 
gender; nominative case; making i« the genitive 
cf?ney in the dative to me; in the accusative ?w^/ 
having no vocative ; but making in the ablative 
from me ; that we is its plural number; must I 
know that am is a verb, making in the infinitive 
mood be ; that it is the first person, in the singular 
number ; that k is a substantive verb ; that it ;s in 
the indicative mood, in the present tense ; an aux* 
iliary verb; that thirsty is an adjective or an attri- 
bute which by the copula a7n is married with^^ 
the word I? Do you imagine that I must know alle 
this obscure and confounding jargon in order to bc'o 
able to tell you that I am thirsty. Or do you fancj^f 

K 



Sb THE RfETHOD 

that if I know all the vocabulary of fanciful and 
arbitrary terms used in all or any of the various 
theories of grammar, that I understand the bet- 
ter what I want to tell you ? If therefore you want 
to treat your children like parrots, or learned hogs, 
you may teach them your grammars (let their au- 
thors be whom they may) in the usual manner, 
and begin therewith as soon as you please, and you 
will most assuredly effect your purpose. But if you 
want to make of them rational beings, take a ra- 
tional method and success will be your reward. 
** But am I to explain to my pupils the meaning 
of each term or sign which they employ ?" Yes, 
This is your duty, and if you are not able to do 
this, you are not fit for the station of a teacher of 
1 rational beings. 

Improvements in every art or science, and al- 
terations in any habits of thinking or acting, long 
established, are sure to meet opposers. Perhaps 
it is not useless that it should be so, since it is bv 
examination and experience, real improvements 
may be distinguished from the merely imaginary, 
the solid from the unsubstantial. This contri- 
vance for the teaching of children to write and read, 
is composed for children and teachers exclusively. 
If I could be assured it would not fall into other 
hands, it would not be necessary for me to form 
this introduction. But as it will very probably^ 
fall into the hands of persons who are adverse to 
any alteration of the long established forms of 
schools, and manner of teaching ; who may think 
the old metlK>ds as having reached the greatest 
til degree of perfection; and who on that account 
ii^(Wili be disqualified from forming a judgment on a 
gjj^subject, which will by the force of their prejudi- 
suiCes, be kept too much aloof to be within the bounds 



OF TEACHmO, S7" 

of their comprehension ; I shall follow the prii= 
dent advice of an intelligent friend, and try to 
obviate at least some of the cavils and quibbles oi" 
these aristarchs. 

The syllabic lessons may perhaps be considered 
at the first as novel and unusual ; the phrases will 
perhaps be subjected to the additional imputation 
of triteness and singularity ; and the propositions 
may be treated as awkward, puerile and unfamiliar. 
But as tlierc is no judging correctly of any- 
subject vv'ithout well understanding it, this con- 
trivance of mine must be taken in the manner and 
in the spirit of its purpose, in order to knov/ how 
suitable or unsuitable it is to the accomplishment 
of the end for which it was composed ; and this 
introduction is prepared out of complaisance even 
for prejudices, and with the view of giving some 
explanation of certain peculiarities in the method, 
which upon a little acquaintance, would cease to 
appear under any of the unfavorable points of light 
to which its difference from the usual forms of 
teaching subjects it when taken in a partial lights 

It may be asked, whether the end of teaching 
according to the method I pursue, could not be 
obtained without those exceptions made to the 
manner ? my answer is decidedly in the negative ; 
and every teacher who takes up my track, and pur- 
.sues it with a little patient resolution, will soon 
perceive that there is not only great utility^ but an 
absolute necessity of pursuing the course I have 
laid down. 

My intention, in this little work, is to provide a 
rational method by which children may be taught 
to write and to read ; to render the task easy^ the 
progress snref and the occupation pleasant. To 
effect this purpose, I began with an examination of 



SS THE SIETHOD 

what writing and reading really consisted of ; and 
then to discover the manner in which they may be 
best taught these parts of necessary knowlege. 
After mature investigation, I perceived that the art 
of writing was to communicate thought, and con- 
sists in knowing how to represent by certain figures 
and their combinations, the simple and double orai 
sounds, and their articulations. Those figures or 
visible signs are called letters, and they are the 
forms of letters received in the language and agreed 
on to represent those sounds. 

I perceived that reading consists in the utterance 
of the oral sounds, which are represented by the 
written letters ; and that if I wish to instruct chil- 
dren in the art of writing thoughts, and reading 
them aloud, I must first make them acquainted with 
the elements of our oral language, and then with 
the signs or letters by wdiich those who have pre- 
ceded us in the formation and use of the language, 
had agreed to use as the representatives of those 
elements ; that I must enable my pupils by prac- 
tice or exercise to imitate those visible signs, and 
to utter the sounds which are represented by them ; 
and that finally these exercises must be congenial 
with all the proceedings of the Pestalozzian school. 
I mean to say, they must be minutely gradual. 

If the alphabetical system were regular, as it 
oug:ht to be^ if the same element of our oral Ian- 
gua,o-e was invariably represented by the same 
visible sign ; any child of common capacity could 
be easily taught writing and reading in the course 
of two or three weeks. For it would have only to 
learn to make thirt3'-six signs and to remember 
their meanings, a task which might certahiiy be 
performed in a very small space of time. But the 
truth isj and it is aYnisfortune, that there is hardly 



OF TEACHING. 89 

any thing under the sun more irregular and more 
preposterous than this system. The same element 
is frequently represented in eight or ten different 
ways ; take, for example, the sound which you. 
hear when pronouncing the words, bold, foe, beau, 
loxv, soul, though, owe* door, hautboy, shew. Now 
in all these words we hear the very same sound ? 
which is consequently represented in ten different 
ways : by o in bold, by oe in foe, by eaii in beau, 
by ow in low,, by on in soul, by ough in though, by 
oxve in flowed, by oo in door, by aut in hautboy, 
and by ew in shew. Whereas the very same sign. 
very often represents four or five different ele- 
ments. Take, for example, the words man, fote^ 
mar, halt, xvoman, many, village. In each of these 
seven words the letter a represents a totally differ- 
ent sound. Instead, therefore, of learning to 
represent thirty-six elements by thirty-six signs^ 
children are doomed to learn the representation of 
j)erhaps more than twenty-thousand words indi'- 
v I dually ^ a task so tedious, so disgusting and 
laboi-ious, that out of one hundred children, ninety- 
nine perhaps have neither time nor capacity 
•enough to perform it. That we are compelled to 
learn to write every word of the language indivi- 
dually, will appear evident from the following 
consideration. Let us suppose a person should 
know how to write every word of the language 
except the word cough. Is it to be imagined that 
his previously acquired knowledge v/ould enable 
him to write this word in the usual way ? Let us 
examine. The word or rather the sound cough is 
composed of three elements, one of which is a 
sound, and the two remaining ones are articula° 
tions. The first articulation, in this word repre= 
sented by Cp is in other words represented by i, ck^ 

H 2 



90 THE METHOD 

c/z, qu^ che^ and que ^ for instance in the words 
bleak, black, echo^ liquor^ ache^ and anitqiie. The 
second element of the sownd coiigh^ represented 
by ou^ is in many words represented by c, in others 
by aw, in others by oughf m others by augh, in 
Kome by au^ in others by oa, by ow, and by aL 
J^ook for instance at the words, nor, paw, sought^ 
taught^ author, broad, knowledge, falL The last 
element of the sound cough represented by gh^ is 
in many v/ords represented by /", in others by^ in 
others by /j/z. The first articulation might therefore 
be represented by seven, the second in nine, and 
the last articulation in four different ways. Now, 
I defy the best guesser in New England to guess 
the exact manner in which contrivers of this 
alphabetical system meant to represent the sound 
cough. But it is useless to dwell on the absurdi- 
ty of the prevailing alphabetical system. What I 
have said may be sufficient to convince every 
rational being that any scheme for teaching the 
use of such a defective instrument must necessarily 
partake of its defects, and where there is so much 
absurdity, that the means to overcome it may 
likewise appear to partake of it. Let me now 
briefly state what road I have taken and what 
difficulties I had to contend v/ith. I began first to 
ascertain all the various elements of the spoken 
language, and called them according to their na- 
ture, simple SQundS'i double sounds, SLud articulations. 
Next I acquainted my pupils in due succession 
with the visible signs by which every element is 
represented. But in order not to bewilder them, 
we represented in our first course every sound and 
articulation throughout by the same sign. Thus 
the sound a, which you hear in pronouncing ya^e, 
pail J great ^ he, we always represented by the letter 



OP TEACHING. 9i 

a. This first part might therefore be styled the 
regular part of the business ; though for obvious 
reasons it little deserves this name. After they 
had learned to represent every element of our 
spoken language in the regular way, I proceeded 
to make them write words of one, then two, then 
three syllables, and so on. For this purpose I 
selected such words as are spelled according to 
the above mentioned regularity. All the other 
words, whose elements are represented irregularly 
must of necessity be kept out of sight, because the 
children having yet to learn them, know nothing 
of them, and would needs have spelled them wrong. 
For instance let us take the word bought. By 
analysing this sound they would have found that 
this sound is composed of three elements, and as 
they had been taught to represent the first elem.ent 
by ^, the second by o, as in nor ^ for ^ and the third 
by f, they would have represented this sound by 
hot, haugh^ they would have spelled laf; cough 
they would have written kof^ &c. &c. But to 
avoid this incongruity w^hich is in the language, 
a course adapted to the correction of this incon- 
gruity must be pursued ; and in this will be 
found an explanation of the apparent oddity of the 
classification of syllables and phrases. From 
writing single words we proceeded to write whole 
sentences. These sentences again contain no 
others but such words as are spelled according to 
our regular waij^ that is, excluding what is not 
simple and regular ; and for the same reason. In- 
stead, therefore, of the usual word rapture^ I was 
compelled to make use of the term enravishment^ 
The vulgar term to swop^ usurped the place of the 
more elegant word to barter, or to exchange* As 
I could not use the word peely I employed vhe 



9% ^ THE MGTHOB 

word ski?i. The usual word you^ in the commmi 
dialect of civil life, I could not employ, and there- 
fore I made use of the word thoii^ of the grave 
dialect. Instead of saying as we usually, say : 
She did not forbid me to erase it ; or, She did not 
forbid my erasing it ; I was compelled to employ 
the obsolete or unusual form, She did not forbid 
me erasing it. As I could not employ the word 
dislike^ I was obliged to say detest. This is the 
reason why the same words recur so often. Instead 
of the usual aghast^ I was compelled to use the 
unusual agast^ which latter spelling is however 
authorisecl by the elegant Walker. From this 
exposition it is evident that to construct my first 
phrases, containing no other terms but such as are 
spelled regularly, I had perhaps not above three 
hundred words at my command. Those, there- 
fore, who would, be tempted to censure the appa- 
rent awkwardness of my regular sentences, have 
only to attempt the construction of a dozen phrases, 
under similar restrictions^ and I am confident that 
they will discover the difficulty. And to render 
the task more easy to them, I am about to select 
a dozen words for them, on which they may base 
their construction : fllm^Jish^ pond^Jiash^ ground^ 
■mornings fur^fund^ prohibit^ insult^ fing^ spring. 

" But why did you not give single words instead 
of sentences, if it was impossible for you to make 
better ones ?" 

Because children have not merely the faculty of 
learning, but also of forgetting. 

After we had done with this regular representa- 
tion, we proceeded to the irregularities of the 
sounds. On every word in which one or more 
sounds are represented irregularly, I constructed 
again a phrase. The irregularities were again 



OF TEACHING. 93 

kitroduced in due succession ; all the unknown 
words were continually kept out of sight. Thus, 
in the first chapter of the irregularities, where we 
learned to represent the sound o by oa; I could not 
employ any other words but such as are spelled 
regularly, and such in which this sound is repre- 
sented by oa. Those very words which included 
the sound o irregularly represented, such as the 
wordcca^, but in which there were besides some 
other irregularities with which we had not yet be- 
come acquainted, were to be kept out of sight. 
This word coat will only make its appearance in 
the chapter where k is replaced by c as in cold, 
cough, &c. After we had by degrees, become ac- 
quainted with all the whimsical ways in which the 
sounds of our words are represented, we proceed- 
ed to the representation of the articulations liable 
to irregularities. These irregularities form the 
third part, and second volume of the work, which 
will follow the first as speedily as possible. A 
careful inspection of the phrases, making up the 
second part of the first volume? will convince every 
one that my phraseology grows better and better 
the farther I advance. This is natural enough. 
The range of v^ords at my command becomes wi- 
der and wider at every step, and I have conse- 
quently less trouble in saying what I mean to 
express, and I can assure all those who perceive 
oddity or awkwardness in the commencement, that 
before they shall rea^^h the end of the second vo- 
lume they will be served with very elegant senten- 
ces, witty sayings, poetical effusions, harmonious 
constructions, v/ell rounded periods, and a great 
many other nice things too tedious to enumerate, 

*' And why did you not leave the phrase-making 
business to the teachers themselves ?'' 



'm THE SIETIiOD 

Because I am confident that not one out of ■& 
hundred would have a sufficient share of patience 
or laboriousness to undertake and to perform so 
tedious a job, 

'' But will not your queer phraseology lead 
children into a wrong path ?" 

No, sir. Because this phraseology will be 
abandoned as soon as practicable, and replaced by a 
more rational one. Thus the grave and solemn 
ihou will be exchanged for the fashionable yoUf as 
soon as we reach the chapter where the sound you 
hear in you^fool^ rue^ &c. is represented by ow. Af- 
ter that period this solemn word thou will only be 
resorted to in the future tense. Because the word 
zvill or shall being irregular in its articulate repre- 
sentation will compel me to say, thou ruilt ; instead 
of saying, you tuilL And as soon as we reach 
the chapter in the second volume where we shall 
learn to represent the last articulation perceived 
in will or shall by U,, the word thou will be totally 
banished. 

" But why did you contrive this new method ? 
Why did you not follow the old beaten track ?" 

if you understand any thing about our alphabe- 
tical system, you must be convinced, as I am, that 
this instrument for representing our oral sounds is 
very defective ; that to learn its right use requires 
a very long period of time. Now I have observed 
that few men who have learned to handle this 
instrument, know any thing about its numerous 
and glaring defects ; most of them are, on the 
contrary, wisely of opinion that it is a very clever 
thing, and that it would be a great pity to ex- 
change it for another. This notion of theirs is, 
in my opinion, owing to the defective and prepos- 
terous method by which they are taught its use., 



©F TEACHING, 9o 

And this is the true reason that induced me to 
abandon the beaten rack and to introduce this new 
scheme. And I have not the least doubt but the 
next generation, if taught to write and to read after 
this new ntethod, will be fully convinced of all the 
defects of our present alphabetical system, and 
unanimously reject it in order to adopt a rationai 
one. 



THE IVIETHOB 



PRACTICAL 

WRITING ^ READING LESSONS. 



SECTION I. 



Containing the simple sounds of the language in all 
their variety^ considered as sounds only. 



a 


e 


o 


n 




A 


E 


O 


U 




ba 


be 


bo 


bu 




Ba 


Be 


Bo 


Bu 




ab 


eb 


ib 


ob 


lib 


Ab 


Eb 


lb 


Ob 


Ub 


bab 


beb 


bib 


bob 


bub 


Bab 


Beb 


Bib 


Bob 


Bub 


pa 
Pa 


pe 

Fe 


po 
Po 


pu 
Fu 




ap 
Ap 


ep 
Ep 


ip 


op 

Op 


up 
up 


pap 
Pap 
Bap 
Pab 


pep 
Pep 
Bep 

Peb 


pip 

Pip 

Bip 

Pib 


pop 

Fop 
Bop 
Fob 


pup 
Pup 
Bup 
Fuu ^- 


Ma 


Me 


Mo 


Mil 




ma 


me 


nio 


mil 




am 


em 


im 


um 


om 


Am 


Em 


Im 


Urn 


Om 


mam 


mem 


mim 


mom 


mum 


Mami 


Mem 


•^Mim 


Mom 


Mum 







OF TEACHING. 




bam 


bem 


bim 


bom 


bum 


Bam 


Bern 


Bim 


Bom 


Bam 


mab 


meb 


mib 


mob 


mub 


Mab 


Meb 


Mib 


Mob 


Mub 


pam 
Pam 


pem 
Pern 


pirn 
Pirn 


pom 
Pom 


pum 
Pum 


map 
Map 


mep 
Mep 


ntip 
Mip 


mop 
Mop 


mup 
Mup 


mamp 
Mamp 


memp 
Memp 


mimp 
Mimp 


momp 
Momp 


mump 
Mump 


Pamp 


Pemp 


Pimp 


Pomp 


Pump 


pamp 
Bomp 


pemp 
bamp 


pimp 
bimp 


pomp 
bump 


pump i 
bemp 


Wa 


We 


Wo 


Wu 




\va 


we 


wo 


wu 




wab 


web 


wib 


wob 


wub 


Wab 


Web 


Wib 


Wob 


Wub 


Wam 


Wem 


Wim 


Wom 


Wum 


warn 


wem 


wim 


worn 


wum 


wap 
Wap 


wep 
Wep 


wip 
Wip 


wop 
Wop 


wup 
Wup 


wamp 
Wamp 


wemp 
Wemp 


wimp 
Wimp 


womp 
Womp 


wump 
Wump. 


do 


de 


da "^ 


du 




Do 


De 


Da 


Du 




ad 


ed 


id 


od 


ud 


Ad 


Ed 


Id 


Od 


Ud 


Dad 


Ded 


Did 


Dod 


Dud 


Dab 


Deb 


Dib 


Dob 


Dub 


bad 


bed 


bid 


bod 


bud 


Dam 


Dem 


Dim 


Dom 


Dum 


M;ad 


Med 


Mid 


Mod 


Mud 


Dap 
pod 


Dep 

peri 


Dip 

pud 


Dop 

pad 


Dup 

pid 



97 



98 




THE METt 


lOD 




Dabd 


Dibd 


dobd 


dubd 


debd 


Wad 


Wud 


Wod 


Wed 


Wid 


wabd 


Webd 


wobd 


wibd 


wubd 


Damp 


demp 


domp 


dump 


dimp 

■j 


pamd 


pemd 


pomd 


pimd 


puma 


Dwa 


Dwe 


Dwo 


Dwu 




Dwab 


Dweb 


Dwib 


Dwob 


Dwub 


Dwem 


Dwim 


Dwom 


Dwum 


Dwam 


Dwep 


Dwip 


Dwap 


Dwup 


Dwop 


ta 


te 


tu 


to 




Ta. 


Te 


Tu 


To 




Tat 


Tet 


Tit 


Tot 


Tut 


at 


et 


it 


ot 


ut 


bat 


bet 


bit 


bot 


but 


tab 


teb 


tib 


tob 


tub 


pat 


pet 


Dit 

X 


pot 


put 


tap 


tep 


tip 


top 


tup 


mat 


met 


mit 


mot 


mut 


tarn 


tern 


tim 


torn 


turn 


Twa 


Twe 


Two 


Twu 




Twap 


Twep 


Twip 


Twop 


Twup 


Tad 


tid 


tud 


tod 


ted 


dat 


dit 


dut 


dot 


det 


Tamp 


temp 


timp 


tomp 


tump 


wapt 


wept 


wipt 


wopt 


wupt 


tapt 


tept 


tipt 


topt 


tupt 


dapt 


dept 


dipt 


dopt 


dupt 


Twapt 


twept 


twipt 


twopt 


twupt 


Fa 


Fe 


Fo 


Fu 




fa 


fe 


fo 


fu 




af 


ef 


if 


of 


uf 


fef 


fef 


fif 


fof 


fuf 


feat 


bef 


bif 


bof 


buf 


tm. 


feb 


^ fib 


fob 


fub 







OF TEACHING. 




paf 
lap 
maf 


pef 
fep 
mef 


pif 
mif 


pof 
fop 
mof 


puf 

fup 
muf 


fam 


fem 


iim 


fom 


fum 


waf 


wef 


wif 


wof 


wuf 


daf 


def 


dif 


dof 


duf 


fad 


fed 


fid 


fod 


fud 


taf 


tef 


tif 


tof 


tuf 


fat 


fet 


fit 


fot 


fut 


baft 


beft . 


boft 


bift 


buft 


paft 
maft 


peft 
meft 


pift 
mift 


poft 
moft 


puft 
muft 


woft 


weft 


wift 


waft 


wuft 


doft 


daft 


deft 


dift 


duft 


loft 


taft 


teft 


tuft 


lift 


Va 


Ve 


Vo 


Vu 




va 


ve 


vo 


Vll 




vat 


vet 


vit 


vot 


vut 


vab 


vob 


veb 


vib 


vub 


vam 


vem 


vom 


vim 


vum 


Way 


wev 


wov 


wiv 


wuv 


bav 


bov 


biiv 


biv 


bev 


tav 


tev 


tov 


tiv 


tuv 


dov 


dev 


dav 


duv 


div 


vad 


ved 


vod 


vid 


vud 


vat 


vot 


vit 


vut 


vet 


vamp 
vabd 


vemp 
vobd 


vomp 
vebd 


vump 
vibd 


vimp 
vubd 


vapt 
fav 


Vept 
fev 


vopt 
fiv 


vipt 
fov 


viipt 
fuv 


vaf 


vef 


vif 


vof 


vuf 


vaft 


veft 


vift 


voft 


vuft 


Sa 


So 


Se 


Su 




•as 


es 


lis 


is 


OS 



99 



lOU 




THE METHOD 




sas 


sus 


SOS 


ses 


sis 


bas 


bes 


bus 


bis 


bos 


sob 


sib 


sub 


seb 


sab 


pas 


pes 


pis 


pos 


pus 


sup 


sop 


sip 


sep 


sap 


mas 


mos 


mis 


mes 


mus 


sum 


sem 


slm 


som 


sam 


was 


wes 


WOS 


wis 


wus 


das 


des 


dis 


dus 


dos 


6ad 


sed 


sid 


sud 


sod 


tas 


tes 


tis 


tus 


tos 


sat 


set 


sit 


sut 


sot 


fas 


fes 


lis 


fos 


fus 


suf 


sof 


sif 


sef 


saf 


vas 


ves 


vus 


vis 


vos 


sov 


SUV 


siv 


sev 


sav 


ust 


est 


ast 


ist 


ost 


sta 


ste 


sto 


stu 




sast 


sest 


sost 


sist 


sust 


stus 


stes 


stos 


stas 


stis 


bast 


best 


bist 


bost 


bust 


stab 


steb 


stib 


stob 


stub 


past 


pest 


pist 


post 


pust 


stup 


stop 


stip 


step 


stap 


mast 


inest 


must 


mist 


most 


stem. 


stem 


stum 


stim 


stam 


wast 


west 


wost 


wist 


wust 


dast 


dest 


dust 


dist 


dost 


stod 


stid 


stud 


sted 


stad 


tast 


test 


tust 


tist 


tost 


Stat 


stet 


stut 


stit 


stot 


fast 


fest 


fust 


fist 


fost 


staf 


stef 


stuf 


stif 


stof 


vest 


vest 


vust 


vast 


vist 


stov 


stev 


* stuv 


stiv 


stav 


smab 


smeb 


smib 


smob 


smub 







OF TEACHING. 




smep 


smip 


smop 


smup 


smap. 


swip 


swop 


swap 


swep 


swup 


Sfep 


Sfip 


Sfop 


Sfap 


Sfup 


bests 


bosts 


bists 


busts 


basts 


pests 


posts 


pists 


pusts 


pasts 


mests 


mists 


*mosts 


masts 


musts 


wosts 


wusts 


wests 


wists 


wasts 


vosts 


vists 


vusts 


vasts 


Vests 


fosts 


fists 


fusts 


fests 


fasts 


dosts 


dists 


dusts 


dasts 


dests 


tests 


tists 


tusts 


tasts 


tosts 


sosts 


sists 


susts 


sasts 


sests 


Smit 


smut 


smat 


smot 


smet 


Swet 


swot 


swit 


swut 


swat 


Swift 


swoft 


sweft 


swuft 


swaft 


Sift 


Soft 


saft 


suft 


seft 


Sifts 


softs 


sufts 


safts 


sefts 


Swept 


swopt 


swapt 


swupt 


swipt 


Swepts 


swopts 


swapts 


swupts 


swipts 


Swemp 


swomp 


swimp 


swump 


swamp 


Swim 


Sworn 


swam 


swum 


swem. 


Stump 


Stamp 


stomp 


stemp 


stimp 


Stamps 


Stumps 


stomps 


stemps 


stimps 


Stampt 


Stumpt 


stompt 


stempt 


stimpt 


Stopt 


Stept 


stupt 


stipt 


stapt 


Spot 


spet 


sput 


spat 


spit 


Ga 


ge 


go 


gu 




ag 


eg 


ig 


ug 


og 


gag 


geg 


g^g 


gog 


gug 


gab 


geb 


gib 


gob 


gub 


bag 


beg 


big 


bog 


bug 


pag 


peg 


pig 


V^S 


pug 


gap 


gep 


gip 


gop 


gup 


mag 


meg 


mug 


mig 


mog 


gam 


gem 


gum 


gim 


gom 



101 



I 2 



id% 




THE METHOD 




wag- 


weg 


WOg 


wig 


Wug 


dag 


deg 


dog 


dug 


dig 


gad 


god 


ged 


gud 


gid 


tag 


tog 


teg 


tug 


tig 


gat 


got 


get 


gut 


git 


vag 


veg 


vig 


vog 


vug 


gav 


gev 


gov 


giv 


guv 


fag 


fog 


fig 


fug 


feg 


gaf 


gef 


gof 


gif 


guf 


sag 


seg 


sog 


sug 


sig 


gas 


ges 


gus 


gis 


gos 


bogd 


begd 


bugd 


bigd 


bagd 


pogd 


pigd 


pugd 


pagd 


pegd 


mogd 


megd 


mugd 


migd 


magd 


wogd 


wagd 


wegd 


wugd 


wigd 


sagd 


segd 


sogd 


sugd 


sigd 


dogd 


degd 


dugd 


digd 


dagd 


tagd 


tegd 


tugd 


tigd 


togd 


Smag 


smog 


smeg 


smig 


sjnug 


stag 


steg 


stig 


stog 


stug 


Swog 


swag 


swug 


swig 


sweg 


twig 


twog 


twug 


twag 


tweg 


Zo 


Za 


Ze"" 


Zu 




az 


ez 


iz 


oz • 


uz 


zaz 


zez 


ziz 


zoz 


zuz 


baz 


bez 


buz 


biz 


boz 


poz 


pez 


puz 


paz 


piz 


maz 


mez 


miz 


moz 


muz 


zam 


zem 


zim 


zom 


zum 


zop 


Zap 


zup 


zep 


zip 


vaz 


vez 


viz 


voz 


vuz 


waz 


wez 


wuz 


wiz 


woz 


doz 


dez 


duz 


diz 


daz 


zad 


zed 


zid 


zed 


zud 


foz 


fez 


fuz 


fiz 


fax 







OF TEACHING. 




zof 


zef 


zuf 


zif 


zaf 


saz 


sez 


soz 


suz 


siz 


zas 


zes 


zos 


zus 


zis 


toz 


tuz 


tez 


tiz 


taz 


zot 


zet 


zut 


zit 


zat 


goz 


gez 


guz 


giz 


gaz 


zag 


zeg 


zig 


zug 


zog 


simz 


sumz 


semz 


somz 


samz 


stagz 


stegz 


stigz 


stogz 


stugz 


zast 


zest 


zust 


zist 


zost 


bedz 


bodz 


budz 


badz 


bidz 


spedz 
smedz 


spodz 
smodz 


spudz 
smudz 


spidz 
smadz 


spadz 
smidz 


zamp 
Swebz 


zomp 
swobz 


zimp 
swubz 


zump 
swibz 


zemp 
swabz 


twez 


Twoz 


twiz 


twuz 


twaz 


Stedz 


Stodz 


studz 


stidz 


stadz 


gadz 


gedz 


godz 


gidz 


gudz 


twigz 


twogz 


twagz 


twugz 


twegz 


pegz 
Sfegz 


pigz 

Sfigz 


pogz 
sfogz 


pugz 
sfugz 


pagz 
sfags 


Smegz 
Dabz 


smogz 
debz 


smagz 
dubz 


smugz 
dibz 


smigz 
dobz 


damz 


demz 


domz 


dimz 


dumz 


Samz 


Semz 


somz 


simz 


sumz 


fibz 


fobz 


febz 


fubz 


fabz 


gagz 
Swodz 


gegz 
Swedz 


gogz 
swudz 


gigz 
swidz 


gugz 
swadz 


Swogz 
digz 


Swigz 
dogz 


Swugz 
dugz 


swegz 
degz 


swagz 
dagz 


pamz 


pemz 


pomz 


pimz 


pumz 


Spamz 
dadz 


Spemz 
dedz 


Spomz 
dodz 


spimz 
dudz . 


spurns 
didz 


Sivz 


Sevz 


Sovz 


Savz 


Suvz 


davz 


divz 


devz 


dovz 


duvz 


givz 


gevz 


govz 


gavz 


guvz 



403 



104 




THE METHOB 




wedz 


wodz 


wadz 


widz 


wudz 


Ko 


ke 


ka 


ku 




ok 


ek 


ak 


uk 


ik 


kok 


kek 


kak 


kuk 


kik 


bok 


bek 


buk 


bik 


bak 


kob 


keb 


kubi 


kib 


kab 


pak 
kap 
mak 


pek 
kep 
mek 


pik 
kip 
mok 


pok 
kop 
mik 


puk 
kup 
muk 


kum 


kem 


kam 


kim 


kom 


wak 


wek 


wik 


wok 


wuk 


duk 


dik 


dek 


dok 


dak 


kad 


kid 


ked 


kud 


kod 


Tuk 


tek 


tik 


tok 


tak 


kut 


kit 


ket 


kot 


kat 


vak 


vik 


vek 


vok 


vak 


kav 


kev 


kiv 


kov 


kuv 


Sok 


Suk 


Sik 


Sek 


sak 


kuf 


kef 


kif 


kof 


kaf 


kas 


kos 


kus 


kis 


kes 


gek 
kug 
zik 


gak 
kag 
zok 


gok 
keg 

zek 


gik 
kig 
zuk 


guk 
kog 
zak 


kaz 


kuz 


kez 


koz 


kiz 


Skab 


Skeb 


Skob 


skib 


skub 


baks 


beks 


boks 


biks 


buks 


Skap 
paks 
Skim 


Skep 
peks 
skam 


skop 
poks 
skem 


skup 
puks 
skom 


skip 
piks 
skum 


miks 


maks 


meks 


moks 


muks 


duks 


daks 


deks 


doks 


diks 


Skid 


Sked 


skid 


skod 


skad 


Smak 


smek 


smik 


smok 


smuk 


Skuf 


Skef . 


. skif 


skot 


skaf 


Skut 


Sket 


skot 


skat 


skit 







OP TEACHIN&, 




tiks 


toks 


tuks 


taks 


teks 


Skev 


Skiv 


skov 


skav 


skuv 


zuks 


ziks 


zoks 


zeks 


zaks 


kegz 
miikt 


kag2; 
mekt 


kogz 
mokt 


kugz 
mikt 


kigz 
makt 


wekt 


wokt 


wikt 


wukt 


wakt 


Skipt 
dakt 


Skept 
dikt 


skopt 
dokt 


skapt 
dukt 


skapt 
dekt 


Stakt 


stekt 


stokt 


stukt 


stikt 


bakt 


bekt 


bokt 


bukt 


bikt 


bakst 


bekst 


bukst 


bokst 


bikst 


Spikt 
Skimd 


spokt 
skomd 


spukt 
skumd 


spakt 
skemd 


spekt 
skamd 


kist 


kost 


kust 


kast 


kest 


kists 


kosts 


k lists 


kasts 


kests 


goks 
gokt 
kamp 
kats 


geks 
gukt 
kemp 
kets 


guks 
gekt 
kimp 
kots 


giks 
gikt 
komp 
kuts 


gaks 
gakt 
kump 
kits 


Skeks 


skoks 


skiks 


skuks 


skaks 


Spuks 
zdoks 


spoks 
zdeks 


speks 
zduks 


spiks 
zdiks 


spaks 
zdaks 


Ra 


Re 


Ro"" 


Ru 




ra 


re 


ro 


ru 




bra 


bre 


bro 


bru 




pra 
iVa 


pre 
fre 


pro 
fro 


pru 
fru 




tra 


tre 


tro 


tru 




spra 


spre 


spro 


spru 




stra 


stre 


stro 


stru 




brat 


bret 


brit 


brot 


brut 


prat 


pret 


prit 


Drot 


prut 


ram 


rem 


rom 


rim 


rum 


brim 


brem 


brom 


bram 


brum 


strip 


strap 


strop 


strap 


strep. 



105 



106 




THE METHOD 




rast 


rest 


rost 


rust 


rist 


frat 


fret 


frit 


frot 


frut 


gret 


grot 


grut 


grit 


grat 


ramz 


remz 


rimz 


romz 


rumz 


ravz 


revz 


ruvz 


rivz 


rovz 


from 


Irem 


frim 


frum 


fram 


kro 


kre 


kru 


kra 




krot 


kret 


krut 


krit 


krat 


sprad 
dred 


spred 
drad 


sprud 
drod 


sprid 
drid 


sprod 
drud 


tred 


trad 


trod 


trid 


trud 


stript 
frets 


strapt 
frits 


strupt 
frots 


stropt 
fruts 


strep t 
frats 


brimz 


bramz 


bromz 


bremz 


brumz 


rasts 


rests 


rusts 


rists 


rosts 


brests 


brosts 


brusts 


brists 


brasts 


pre St 
rafts 


prost 
refts 


prast 
rifts 


prust 
rofts 


prist 

rufts 


krek 


krak 


krok 


kruk 


krik 


grek 


grak 


grak 


grik 


grok 


grog 

drug 

drugz 

frog 

frogz 


greg 

dreg 

dregz 

freg 

fregz 


grug 

drag 

dragz 

frig 

frigz 


grig 

dng 

drigz 

frug 

frugz 


drog 
drogz 
frag 
fragz 


sprig 


spreg 


sprug 


sprag 


sprog 


sprigz 
briks 


sprogz 
breks 


spregz 
broks 


sprugz 
braks 


spragz 
bruks 


strok 


strik 


struk 


strak 


strek 


tredz 


trodz 


tridz 


trudz 


tradz 


grets 


grots 


gruts 


grits 


grats 


strim 


Strom 


strum 


stram 


strem 


fred 


frid 


frod 


frad 


frud 


fredz 


fridz 


frodz 


fradz 


frudz 


Rat 


ret , 


rit 


rot 


rut 


rats 


rets 


rit§ 


rots 


ruts 







OF TEACHING. 




strut 


strat 


stret 


strot 


strit 


struts 


strats 


strits strots 


struts 


rag 


reg 


rig 


rog 


rug 


ragz 
brag 
bragz 


regz 
breg 
brer-z 


rigz rogz 
brig brog 
brigz brogz 


rugz 
brug 
brugz 


ar 


rar 


bar 


par mar 


war 


far 


var 


dar 


tar sar 


zar 


gar 


kar 


star 


spar smar 




art 


rart 


bart 


part mart 


wart 


fart 


vart 


dart 


tart sart 


zart 


gait 
barm 


kart 
parm 


start 
arm 


spart smart 
darm farm 




dark 


park 


ark 


sark mark 




fark 


tark 


gark 


wark hark 




stark 


start 


starm 


sparm 




storm 
Burd 


vorm 
purd 


sporm 
murd 


torm 

wurd vurd 




furd 


surd 


turd 


gurd kurd 




turf 


torf 


tarf 


surf sorf 




burk 


bork 


bark 


burks barks 




surk 
fork 


purk 
stork 


murk 
furks 


gurk 
sturks 




ha 


he 


ho 


hu 




hab 


heb 


hib 


hob 


hub 


hap 
ham 


hop 
hem 


hip 

him 


hup 
hom 


hep 
hum 


hav 


hiv 


hov 


huv 


hev 


haf 


hef 


hof 


hif 


huf 


had 


hod 


hed 


hid 


hud 


hat 


hot 


het 


hit 


hut 


his 


hos 


bus 


has 


hes 


hiz 


hoz 


huz 


haz 


hez 


hog 


hag 


heg 


hig 


hug 



dior 



108 




THE METHOD 




hok 


hek 


hik 


huk 


hak 


har 


hor 


hur 


hard 


hard 


habd 


hebd 


hubd 


hibd 


hohd 


hopt 

hemp 

hedz 


hept 

hamp 

hodz 


hipt 

homp 

hudz 


hupt 

hump 

hidz 


hapt 

himp 

hadz 


hets 


hits 


hots 


hats 


huts 


hast 


hest 


host 


hist 


hust 


hasts 


hests 


hosts 


hists 


busts 


hasp 
harz 


hesp 
horz 


husp 
hurz 


hisp 
hurts 


hosp 
harts 


hogd 
hakt 


hugd 
hukt 


hegd 
hekt 


higd 
hikt 


hagd 
hokt 


harp 


horp 


hurp 


harps 


hurps 


La 


Le 


Lo"" 


La 




al 


El 


II 


Ol 


ul 


lal 


lei 


lil 


lol 


lul 


bal 


bel 


bil 


bol 


bul 


lub 


lob 


lib 


leb 


lab 


pal 
lup 
mal 


pel 
lop 
mol 


pil 
lip 
mil 


pol 
lep 
mel 


pul 
lap 
mill 


lam 


lorn 


lim 


lem 


lum 


wal 


wel 


wil 


wol 


wul 


val 


vel 


vil 


vol 


vul 


lav 


lev 


liv 


lov 


luv 


fal 


fel 


fil 


fol 


ful 


luf 


lif 


lof 


lef 


laf 


dal 


del 


dol 


dil 


dul 


lud 


lid 


lod 


led 


lad 


lat 


let 


lit 


lut 


lot 


tol 


tul 


til 


tel 


tal 


las 


les 


lus 


lis 


los 


sol 


sel 


sul 


sil 


sal 


laz 


lez * 


^ llz 


loz 


luz 





OF lEACllING, 




2el 


zol 


zil 


zal 


gal 

log 
kel 


gel 
leg 
kll 


kul 


gul 
lag 
kai 


lek 


lok 


lik 


luk 


rel 


ril 


rol 


rul 


lor 


lur 


lard 


lord 


hel 


hil 


hoi 


hul 


held 


hild 


hold 


huld 


belt 


hilt 


holt 


hult 


helk 


hilk 


hoik 


halk 


bold 


buld 


bald 


held 


bolk 


bulk 


balk 


belk 


bult 


bilt 


bait 


belt 


sle 


slo 


slu 




ble 


bio 


blu 




brel 


bril 


brol 


brui 


flit 


folt 


fult 


fait 


keld 


kild 


kold 


kuld 


reld 


rild 


rold 


raid 


hilm 


holm 


hulm 


halm 


Pie 


Plu 


Plo 




Flag 

Plagz 

lurk 


Pleg 

Plegz 

lork 


Flog 

Pligz 

larks 


Pllg 

plogz 

lurks 


skilk 


skolk 


skelk 


skalk 


molk 


melk 


malk 


mulk 


skel 


skol 


skul 


skal 


dral 


drel 


drol 


drul 


spil 
lasp 
speM 

gild 

melkt 


spol 

lesp 

spald 

gold 

mulkt 


spal 

losp 

spold 

geld 

malkt 


spul 

lusp 

spuld 

gald 

molkt 


stel 


stol 


stul 


stal 



i09 



110 




THE MET! 


lOB 




limps 
ladz 


lamps 
ledz 


lumps 
lidz 


lemps 
Icdz 


lomps 
ludz 


glad 
blots 


gled 
blets 


glid 
blits 


glod 
bluts 


glud 
blats 


blod 


bled 


blid 


blud- 


blad 


Kla 


klo 


kle 


klu 




glim 
rilm 


glam 
rulm 


glom 
rolm 


glum 
ralm 


glem 
relm 


milts 


malts 


molts 


melts 


mults 


wilt 


wolt 


welt 


wult 


wait 


swelt 


swilt 


swolt 


swult 


swalt 


dwelt 


dwilt 


dwolt 


dwult 


dwalt 


drilz 


drelz 


drolz 


drulz 


dralz 


blest 


blist 


blost 


blust 


blast 


Fla 


fle 


flo 


flu 




fled 


fiod 


flud 


flid 


flad 


flit 


flat 


fiot 


flet 


fiut 


flits 


fiats 


flots 


flets 


fluts 


flom 


fium 


Aim 


flam 


flem 


fiamp 


flimp 


flomp 


flemp 


flump 


Na 


ne 


no 


nu 




an 


en 


in 


on 


un 


nun 


nan 


nin 


non 


nen 


Ben 


Bin 


bon 


ban 


bun 


nib 


nob 


nab 


nub 


neb 


pen 


pin 


pon 


pun 


pan 


nap 


nip 


nop 


nup 


nep 


men 


man 


mon 


mun 


min 


nim 


nam 


nom 


num 


nem 


wen 


win 


won 


wun 


wan 


dan 


din 


don 


dun 


den 


nod 


nud 


nad 


ned 


nid 


ton 


tun 


ten 


tin 


tan 







OF TEACHING. 


lii 


nat 
fun 
naf 


not 
fan 
nef 


nit 
fen 
nif 


nut 

fm 

nof 


net 
fon 
nuf 


van 


ven 


von 


vin 


vun 


nuv 


nev 


niv 


nov 


nuv 


sun 


son 


san 


sen 


sin 


nis 


nos 


nus 


nes 


nas 


zun 


zan 


zon 


zin 


zen 


nez 


niz 


noz 


nuz 


naz 


Sno 


Snu 


Sna 


Sne 




gun 
nag 
kan 
nuk 


gin 
nig 
ken 

nek 


gen 
neg 
kin 
nik 


gon 
nug 
kon 
nok 


gan 
nog 
kun 
nak 


run 

nar 

hin 

lun 

nil 

Band 


ren 
nur 
hen 

len 
nol 
fand 


rin 

nor 

hun 

lin 

nal 

land 


ron 

nord 

han 

Ion 

nel 

sand 


ran 

nard 

hon 

Ian 

nul 

hand 


naps 
fund 


neps 
hunt 


nips 
grunt 


nops 
brunt 


nups 
sunt 


Snip 

snips 

nupts 

snapt 

nuft 


snap 

snaps 

nipts 

snipt 

nift 


snup 

snops 

nepts 

snopt 

naft 


snop 

sneps 
nopts 
snept 
noft 


snep 

snups 

napts 

snupt 

neft 


rest 
bent 
send 


nist 
lent 
bend 


nost 
sent 
lend 


nust 
pent 
spend 


nast 
tent 
tend 


Bi 

ri 
li 
wild 


mi 

fi 

ni 

find 


pi wi si 
vi ki gi 
wind hind bind 
rind pint mind 


zi 

hi di 
kind 



tl% 




THE MEIHOD 




ski 


sli^ 


smi 


swi dwi 


tWf 


dri 

bli 


sni 
kri 


tri 
gri 


pri bri 
skri stri 


pli 

Sti 


spi 


wind 


nind 


lind tind 




Ya 


Ye 


Yu 


""* Yo 




yes 
yab 


yis 
yib 


yos 
yob 


yus 
yub 


yas 
yeb 


yest 


yist 


yost 


yust 


vast 


yem 


yim 


yom 


yum 


yam 


yap 


yep 


yip 


yop 


yup 


yar 
yad 


yor 
yed 


yur 
yid 


yarn 
yod 


yum 
yud 


yet 
yek 
yel 
yef 


yit 
vik 
yil 
yif 


yot 
yok 
yol 
yof 


yut 
yuk 
yul 
yuf 


yat 
yak 
yal 
yef 


yev 
yard 


yiv 
yurd 


yov 
yord 


yuv 
yardz 


yav 


The 


tho 


tha 


thu 


thi 


Thru 


thro 


thra 


thre 




ath 


eth 


ith 


oth 


uth 


hath 


beth 


bith 


both 


buth 


thrap 
math 


threp 
meth 


thrip 
mith 


throp 
moth 


muth 


thum 


tham 


them 


thom 


thim 


geth 
thug 
weth 


gith 
thig 
with 


goth 
thag 
woth 


gath 
theg 
wath 


guth 
tho^ 
w uth 


penth 
Lenth 


panth 
linth 


pi nth 
lanth 


punth 
lunth 




iath 


leth 


lith 


loth 


iuth 


hath 


heth 


hith 


both 


buth 


yeth 
icith 


yath 

thar 


yoth 
thorp 


yuth 
reth 


yith 
ruth 







OF TEACHmG. 




vath 


veth 


vith 


voth 


vuth 


fath 


feth 


foth 


fith 


futh 


path 
thak 


pcth 
thek 


poth 
thik 


pith 

thok 


puth 
thuk 


kath 


kith 


koth 


kuth 


keth 


plinth 
Snath 


plonth 
sneth 


plenth 
snith 


plunth 
snoth 


snuth 


smith 


smath 


smeth 


smuth 




Swith 


swath 


swuth 


sweth 




greth 
strath 


grith 
streth 


groth 
strith 


gruth 
struth 


grath 


spruth 
breth 


sprath 
broth 


sproth 
bruth 


sprith 
brath 


brith 


dwith 


dwoth 


dwuth 


dwath 




This 


thes 


thos 


thus 


thas 


thust 


thost 


thest 


thast 




theft 


thift 


thoft 


thuft 


thaft 


thefts 


thifts 


thofts 


thufts 




baths 


beths 


biths 


boths 


buths 


paths 
fifths 


peths 
fafths 


piths 
fufths 


poths 
fefths 


puths 


tenths 


tanths 


tonths 


tinths 




twelfths 


twelfths 


twilfths 






siksths 


saksths 


seksths 


suksths 




Tho 


thu 


thi "" 


tha 


the 


Than 


then 


thin 


thon 


thun 


lath 


leth 


lith 


loth 


luth 


neth 


nith 


noth 


nath 


nuth 


bathz 


bethz 


bothz 


bithz 


buthz 


Thelf 


thalf 


thulf 


thilf 




Wathz 


wethz 


withz 


wothz 




With 


woth 


weth 


wuth 


wath 


rathz 


rethz 


rothz 


rithz 




brothz 


briithz 


breth z 


brithz 




gurthz 


garthz 


gorthz 
R 2 







113 



llli 




THE MEI HOD 




hethz 


hothz 


hathz 


hithz 




Thum 


thorn 


them 


tuiiii 


tham 


Thag 
yethz 
sathz 


theg 

yitbz 
setbz 


thig 

yothz 

siithz 


thog 

yuthz 

sithz 


thug 


sfethz 


sfathz 


sfothz 






dwethz 


dwithz 


dwothz 


dwathz 




freth 


fruth 


froth 


fruth 




She 


sho 


shu 


shi 


sha 


Shre 


shro 


shru 


shri 


shra 


ash 


esh 


ish 


osh 


ush 


shash 


shesh 


shish 


shush 




bash 


besh 


bush 


bish 


bosh 


sha b 


sheb 


shub 


shib 


shob 


shop 
pesh 
sham 


shep 
posh 
shem 


shup 
push 
shim 


ship 
pash 
shorn 


shap 
pish 
shum 


mash 


mesh 


mish 


mosh 


mush 


wash 


wesh 


wish 


wosh 


wush 


dash 


desh 


dish 


dosh 


dush 


shad 


shed 


shid 


shod 


shud 


lash 


tesh 


tush 


tish 


tosh 


shot 


shet 


shat 


shut 


shit 


sash 


sish 


sosh 


sush 


sesh 


■shas 


shes 


shis 


shos 


shus 


shaz 


sheK 


shiz 


shoz 


shuz 


zush 


zesh 


zosh 


zash 


zish 


fresh 


frash 


frosh 


frish 




vash 


vesh 


vosh 


vush 


vish 


gash 
shag 
kash 


gesh 
sheg 

kesh 


gish 
shig 
kish 


gosh 
shog 
kosh 


gush 
shug 
kush 


shuk 


shek 


shik 


shak 


shok 


shar 


shurk 


short 


shark 




yaish 


resh 


rish 


rush 


rosh 







OF TEACmNG. 




hash 


hesh 


hish 


hosh 


hush 


yash 


yesht 


yish 


yush 


yosh 


11 ash 


nesh 


nish 


nosh 


nush 


shaiit 


shent 


shun 


shin 


shon 


thash 


thesh 


thish 


thosh 


thush 


shath 


sheth 


shith 


shoth 


shuth 


shal 


shel 


shul 


shil 


shol 


lash 


lesh 


lish 


lush 


losh 


skish 


slish 


slesh 


slash 


slosh 


brush 


brusht 


flush 


flusht 




rush 


rusht 


gusht 


husht 




shipt 


shapt 


disht 


wisht 




fisht 


slasht 


masht 


shuts 




trash 


thrash 


thrush 


shedz 




Shrimp 


shrift 


shalt 


rusht 




Ang 


ing 


ong 


ung 


eng 


bang 


rang 


sang 


twang 


hang 


song 


thong 


throng 


strong 


dong 


sing 


thing 


ring 


bring 


wing 


hung 


rung 


sung 


dung 


bung 


thingz 


bringz 


stringz 


ringz 




strung 


klung 


fang 


ding 




bing 


bang 


bong 


bungz 


beng 


king 


sling 


string 


swing 




length 


strength 


long 


pang 




hangz 


kingz 


stringz 


slingz 




Zha 


zhi 


zho 


zhu 


zhe 


dzhe 


dzha 


dzhu 


dzho 


dzhi 


dzhim 


dzhem 


dzham 


dzhar 




ladzh 


Udzh 


lodzh 


ludzh 




grudzh 


fudzh 


budzh 


dodzh 




Sou 


mou 


hou 


kou 


foul 


koul 


toul 


moul 


boul 


found 



115 



116 




THE METHOD 




wound 


hound 


round 


ground 




Sound 


bound 


pound 


mound 




mount 


poutsh 


koutsh 






our 


hour 


sour 


krout 


hous 


mous 


lous 


sous 


flour 




rout 


hout 


bout 


loud 


klouc 


Shout 


shouts 


klouts 


shroud z 




moi 


boi 


hoi 


loi 


toil 


moil 


broil 


soil 


foil 




goil 


spoil 


boil 


oil 


toilz 


soilz 


spoil z 


boilz 


oilz 




voil 


void 


poiz 


toiz 




toild 


boild 


oild 


spoild 




broild 


foild 


soild 


point 




oint 


droit 


Doints 


oints 




dzhoint 


koil 


3oif 


koif 








SECTION II. 





Containing sounds considered as words of one syl- 
lable or monosyllables. 



Drug 

drag 

led 

ring 

bush 

wind 

gun 

Sound 

bets 

lad 

Sum 



shrug 

stag 

bred 

bring 

rush 

bind 

fun 

pound 

pets 

shad 

Star 



mug 

lag 

bed 


hug 
flag 
fed 


bug 
hag 
sled 


king 
brush 


sing 
fish 


string 
dish 


find 


wild 


mind 


shun 


run 


Sun 


hi)und 


round 




sets 


rats 


hats 


mad 


hut 


mud 


Start 


hard 


broil 







OF TEACmXG. 




long 


short 


fit 


with 


bit 


lid 


kid 


bid 


rid 


mid 


dim 


skim 


brim 


him 


men 


pen 


pin 


pan 


pun 


pang 



iir 



SECTION III. 

Including' polysyllables. 



Mindful 

avoid 

fishing 

beset 

Being 

Re grant 

fatal 

Demand 

despot 

distil 

Bathing 

Depending 
demanding 
astounded 
Astragal 



Disembarking 

Unaspiring 

undisturbing 

Unbenevolcnt 

Unpliant 



brimful 

amount 

hunting 

forget 

habit 

regret 

natal 

demit 

flaming 

bemoil 

bashful 



sinful 

around 

mounting 

befit 

postil 

refit 

nestful 

demur 

naming 

bereft 

barshot 



aground 

befoul 

portal 

remind 

nestling 

depend 

bespit 



forgetful 
demanded 
adopted 
disembark 

unforgiving 

benevolent 

unimportant 

uninhabited 

unplanted 



unmindful 
reminded 
adhering 
dishevel 



unanointed 
unlamented 

unprinted 



118 THE METHOD 



SECTIOlSr IV. 

Comprehendmg such phrases as contain words in 
■which the elements are represented regularly*, 

He let me go out. 

Did he let me go out ? 

We did not let him go out. 

Did she not let us go but? 

Let us go to him. 

We had a hot spring. 

She did not sing for him. 

He did not bring it to me. 

He sold me a bad gun. 

Did not the living fish swim. 

The fish swim in the pond. 

Thou must go to the left hand. 

She told me the truth. 

Thou must get a string for him. 

I forgot to send it to them. 

Thou must not harm them. 

She intended to hurt us. 

Our fat dog bit him. 

Our old hog grunts loud. 

The old men did not shout. 

The old man had the gout. 

J'hou shalt set out in the morning. 

I found a bag in our yard. 

The sun did not burn me. 

We left him in the yard. 

We durst not go to him. 

She sold me this red hat. 

Thou blamest him for it. 

Hast thou not found out its basis yet ? 

Thou tradest with a bad man. 

Thou bravest a bdld and strong man. 



OF TEACHING. 11 S> 

He did not forbid me hating a bad man. 
Did he not detest so bad a thing ? 
He sets up for a fatalist. 
We did not mind that bravado. 
Did she not punish the brat ? 
Thou bakest it for them. 
Thou makest for the best port. 
Thou bathest in the pond. 
Art thou pasting or basting it? 
Hast thou wasted or tasted it? 
I did not dab him. 
Yon artist told me the truth. 
Thou makest a solid dam. 
Thou must dam it up. 
He darted from the yard. 
Our fat dog did not bark. 
The old lark did not sing. 
A shark hit our bark. 
Vv^e wish him to darn them. 
Thou shalt not grasp this dart. 
He went a hunting last morning. 
Thou art blind or I am so. 
Thou likest it dark. 
Hast not thou beheld this dash. 
Thou defamest me without ground. 
Thou hast not defended them. 
Thou defilest the finest thing. 
I lost It in that wild forest. 
He left us without defining it. 
That artist degraded himself. 
I intend to dehort them from going out. 
He did not dig it up himself. 
Thou hast deluded them, but thou shalt not out- 
wit us. 
Hast thou not demanded it yet ? 
Hast thou a mind to demur it? 



120 THE METHOD 

The deponent departed this morning. 

I did not wish for that department. 

He did not depend upon us. 

Art thou dependent or independent ? 

Thou deplorest our ruin. 

He laments our deportment. 

We must prevent him from depraving us. 

Did he not devour it, without depluming it^ 

Thou deprivest me without deriding me. 

We did not bid him distil it. 

He left us without dining whh us, 

I did not sup with that bad man. 

Thou shalt not ding them. 

Hast thou dinted it, or wilt thou ding it ? 

Our ship lost its masts. 

That ship must be unmasted. 

At last we found a mastful spot. 

Hast thou a mind to swop this mat. 

Did he intend mazing us ? 

Thou takest the melwel for a fish. 

If thou meltest it, thou makest it soft. 

W^e lost our memorandum, hast thou found it ? 

I did not prevent him from memorizing it. 

Hast thou not begun yet to mend them I 

I met him not far from the yard. 

To mesh fish, thou must get a mesh. 

Hast thou not derided that methodist I 

I lost them both amid the throng. 

The left metatarsus did not hurt me. 

If thou metest it, thou wilt find its length. 

We did not swim in the midmost pond. 

We lost ten midshipmen. 

Thou must transplant this milfoil. 

Hast thou not bid me milk them. 

An old milkman sold me this sour milk. 

You must get a milk pan to put this milk in. 



OF TEACHING- 121 

I found no milt in the pond. 
Thou likest a mindful lad. 
He did not prevent me from mining it. 
Thou wilt find mint in that marsh. 
I found but ten mintmen at the mint. 
Did he not punish me for misbehaving ? 
He did not lament our mishap. 
He misled me, but he did not outrun me. 
Thou hast no ground for misliking us. 
I did not punish him for misnaming me. 
He wasted it and we mispent it. 
Thou hast misrelated the event. 
Thou wishest me to misreport it. 
Thou mistakest him for an artful man. 
If thou hast told it so, thou hast mistold it. 
We did not mistrust so skilful a man. 
The flamen did not absent himself. 
Thou wilt find an abrupt ground. 
Hast thou a mind to abash that lad ? 
I did not prevent them from abasing it* 
Hast thou not abated it yet ? 
We intend to abolish it. 
Thou abidest with a skilful artist. 
I sold him an absorbent. 
The skin did not absorb the oil. 
Thou hopest for an abundant harvest* 
Hast thou a mind to adopt this plan. 
This lad must be adroit and skilful. 
You must not set them adrift yet. 
I admit that he did admonish m^. 
Thou hatest an admiring throng. 
I am not adult yet, but thou art so. 
He left us without adumbrating it. 
We must punish them afresh. 
Did he not stand agast. 
Hast thou a mind to set them agoing ? 

L 



i^2 THE METHOD 

That ship must be aground or stranded. 

I am toid that thou art agonizing. 

Hast thou not toid it to me a moment ago ? 

Thou art agog, but I am aland. 

I did not intend to alarm them. 

Hast thou related this alarming event to them ? 

Thou hast long kept us in the dark. 

We must run to our alarm post. 

Hast thou tasted this alish ituid ? 

He kept himself aloft. 

We wish him to get along. 

I bid him transplant this amaranth. 

Did so amazing a thing not astonish him ? 

It amated me v;ithout amazing me, 

I did not prevent him from ambling along. 

We intend to avoid that ambush. 

This pot lost its amel. 

Hast not thou a mind to amend it ? 

Thou likest this amendment and votest for it. 

Thou shalt send them this amomum. 

Hast thou not found out its amount yet? 

The skilful anatomist detests that anagram. 

He did not prevent me from deriding this 

anathema. 
Thou must punish him without anathematizing 

him. 
I did not prevent him from anatomizing it* 
Hast thou not anointed them yet ? 
Thou hopest that thou wilt find them anon. 
I found a living ant in that bed. 
Thou hast met with a stout antagonist. 
We did not intend antedating it. 
Hast thou not sung this anthem yet ? 
Thou hast not prevented them from antagonizing. 
I found no antethesis in it. 
You must put it upon the anviL 



OF TEACHING. 123 

Thou wilt find the aorta stopt up. 

Hast not thou a mind to set this apart? 

Thou anteponest this apartment to that. 

I did not prevent him from aping me. 

Hast thou not prevented them from apostatizing ? 

We intend to start in April. 

Thou art apt to forget us. 

We detest and abhor this arbitrement. 

He did not prevent lis from meting its ambit. 

We intend to arm them with darts. 

A skilful arborist sent me this arboret. 

The arbalists did not iind the alarm post. 

Our arbitrament did not astonish themr 

Thou art far from being armipotent. 

A sun-burnt ground must be arid. 

Our ark swam in this pond. 

Our armament left port this morning. 

Did not he run around the yard ? 

She did not prevent us from aromatizing it. 

Thou likest our arts, but thou hatest our artists^ 

I found no shaking asp in yon forest. 

Thou must get this aspalathus transplanted* 

Did not the frost hurt our asparagus. 

This event did not alarm our aspiring hero. 

Our astonishment did not last long. 

Wilt thou swop an atlas for an atabal? 

If thou makest this atheroma vanish, thou art a 

skilful man. 
W^iit not thou send this athanor to him ? 
We detest a deist, but we abhor an atheist. 
He did not intend atoning for this sin. 
I did not put them into that bag. 
This bandit did not belong to that band. 
We kept a bandog, but he got mad, and we shot 

him. 
We did not punish him for baning our rats. 



J^24 THE METHOD 

I found a torn bandrol on the ground. 

This baptist found a bantling in the wild forest. 

We must shut out our barb from the barn. 

Hast thou a mind to bar them without a bar ? 

He did not bid me barb them. 

The old king sent for the proud bard. 

I did not prevent him from barking this aspeii. 

She did not bid us burn this bark. 

A dog barks, but larks sing. 

That bashful lad basks in the sun. 

A bar-shot hit our topmast. 

I found no bartram behind that bush. 

Thou hast no ground for naming him a bastard. 

I hit an old bat v/ith an aspen bat. 

She flung a batlet at me. 

Hast not thou sold a bayard to him ? 

We must punish him for bedashing it. 

I told him to dust it, but I did not bid him t© 

bedust it. 
We went out to hurt a behemoth. 
Thou hast not minded our behests. 
Thus thou wilt not be behind hand with them. 
The old bellman did not beg our help. 
Hast thou begun to mend that belt? 
Thou must punish them for bemoiling it. 
Thou art then bent upon asking a benefit. 
Thou wilt not benet them without a net. 
Wilt not thou benefit so benevolent a man ? 
Thou shalt not prevent me from importing benzoin. 
Hast thou a mind to beset us, 
I bet that thou wilt not get the best. 
She had a mind to betroth me. 
We did not bilk our landlord. 
Martin flung it beyond that bush. 
Thou must prevent him from soiling this bib. 
Must it be bifid or bifold ? 



OP TEACHING. ^12£^ 

Thou hast no ground for naming us bigamists* 

I told him to send me a big bilbo. 

I did not bind him, but he bound me. 

Thou hast got a brutish biped for an antagonist. 

T hou wilt find no bistort in that marsh. 

Hast not thou a mind to bit our wild bayard ? 

Thou hast no ground for blaming us. 

Our blandishments did not win him. 

She did not forbid our blandishing them* 

Hast thou not felt the blast f 

The frost did not blast our plants. 

Hast thou not prevented it from blazing. 

I pretend that thou hast not bled him. 

Hast thou not forgot our blemish yet. 

I did not forbid him blending them. 

Thou art blind, but thou shalt not blind me* 

We blind-folded and then left him. 

We blotted, but we did not blot it. 

Wilt not thou swop this bluish thing? 

Thou art a blunt lad, but thou hast not blunted it> 

Wilt thou behold that blur without blushing. 

Did he not blush at blasting it ? 

I am told that she did not bob him. 

Wilt thou not send for a bobwig? 

Did she not wish for an elegant bodkin? 

I shot it not far from that bog. 

Hast thou not a mind to boil them ? 

Thou art not bold, but thou art stout. 

Hast thou not beheld that bolis ? 

He prevented me from taking this bolus* 

He did not bid me lift this bolt. 

Wilt thou bolt it without a bolt? 

We shot a bonasus last morning. 

Hast thou lost our bond ? 

I am told that thou art no bondman. 

I found a bonum magnum on the grouii4»^ 



126 THE METHOD 

Boreas blasted this elegant plant. 
I did not prevent him from boring it. 
This botanist fomid both plants. 
He kept himself within the bound. 
Thou wilt not prevent them from bounding. 
Hast not thou lost a brad in the yard ? 
He told me that he did not brag. 
Big Sam sold me this bran. 
Hast thou fed the old brambling ? 
Kast thou a mind to brand this artist? 
I found a brandling on the ground- 
He did not bid me brandish this dart. 
That bravado did not astonish me. 
Thou blamest me for braving our antagonist. 
Hast not thou a mind to bilk that bravo ? 
I did not prevent them from brazing it. 
I bred this fat pig and that hen. 
He did not forbid me bribing them. 
Art thou not going to mast our brig? 
(He told me that it must be brimful. 
She must be both fat and brinded. 
Thou wilt not bring it about. 
A brisk lad sent me this brinish fluid. 
k beheld a shad and a brit. 
Hast thou a mind to broil this fish ? 
Hast thou not felt so violent a brunt? 
I had no brush nor did I brush it. 
We must prevent them from brutalizing* 
I shun both a brutal man and a brutish lad. 
Plants begin to bud in the spring. 
I found a bug on that bud. 
Thou wilt find out its bulk, if thou metest it. 
Thou shalt not behold its bulb. 
I did not prevent him from hiding this bumpr. 
Hast thou invited so brutish a bumpkin I 
I had BO bung, nor did I buHg iu 



OF TEACHING. 127 

Thou wilt find a bunting in that biint. 

Thou must prevent him from taking up this bur. 

That burn did not hurt me long. 

She prevented them from burning our old barn. 

Old Pvlartin did not bid me burnish them. 

Thou wilt not prevent it from bursting. 

She told me to broil this hurt. 

I lost a brush behind that bush. 

She sent me a strong busk last morning. 

I lost a buskin ; hast thou not found it ? 

The artist hid a bust in that bush. 

A dipsas bit our fat dog. ,,^ 

Our antagonist did not disembroil himself,^ 

Hast thou a mind to disembark them ? 

We intend to disforest this land. 

Thou likest this dish without tasting it. 

She did not prevent me from dishing it up% 

I am going to dishabit them. 

Thou hast a mind to dishorn them. 

We intend to dispark this ground. 

He did not bid me dispart them. 

The sun did not dispel the mist. 

He left us without dispensing them. 

Thus, thou wilt not dispirit them. 

Art thou going to displant them ? 

If thou displodest it, thou wilt disport us. 

Thou must not disregard them. 

We detest a disregardful lad. 

He did not return from that distant land. 

Thou must not bend it, but thou must distend it. 

The king did not bid us distil it. 

Hast thou not prevented him from distorting it ? 

We did not distrust that bigamist. 

Thou must shun so distrustful a man. 

I told him so, but it did not disturb him. 

Did he wish me to broil this dodman. 



12S THE METHOD 

She did not bid me dog them. 

Thou must not admit this dogma. 

Hast thou not beheld that dog fish yet ? 

Thou must not prevent that dogmatist from dog-- 

matizing. 
Thou givest me but a doit. 
\V"e intend doling them anon. 
Hast thou not beheld the dogstar yet ? 
I intend waking that dormant dog. 
Wilt thou swop this dorn for that trout r 
Thou hast forgot to put a dot upon it. 
Sanajl ^ d not wish me to dot it. 
She aid not prevent him from doting upon me. 
Thou must avoid that old dotard. 
I did not prevent him from dozing. 
Thou must turn out that drab. 
Thou hast not sent him this draft. 
Margaret did not bid us drag it. 
Thou hast torn our best dragnet. 
Thou must grant them a dram. 
That dramatist sent me an elegant drama. 
Hast thou not drest the shad yet ? 
Thou shalt not spend the driblet. 
This drift did not astonish me. 
We intend driving them out anon. 
She did not bid me drip it. 
If ihou dronest, thou art a dronish man* 
Hast not thou a mind to drop it ? 
She did not bid me drug it. 
An old druid inhabits that forest. 
I sold him a drum for a drum-fish. 
Hast thou a mind to dub him an artist ? 
He dug it up for a dumpling. 
Thou art this morning both sad and dumpish.^ 
1 did not dun them, nor am I a dun. 
I toid, him that it must be dim and dark* 



OF TEACHING. 129 

We intend to clung this land. 

Thou hast lost our dung fork. 

Thou seest that mad dog behind that dunghill. 

Thou wilt find the dunghill in the dung yard. 

We durst not go out in the dusk. 

I durst not run about in the dust. 

He told me to dust this vest for him. 

If thou egotizest, thou art an egotist. 

I shot a fat egret with this gun. 

I am told that thou intendest eking it. 

I did not prevent him from elaborating it. 

He did not forbid me elating them. 

Hast thou not forgot its elements yet ? 

He did not prevent me from elevating it. 

The elf prevented me from eliding them. 

A wild elk hid itself behind that elm. 

I prevented the elops from eloping. 

Thou intendest eluding our grasp* 

Wilt thou not help that elumbated old man ? 

I prevented him from embaling it. 

We intend to shut and embar it. 

The embargo prevented us from embarking. 

I did not forbid them emblazing it. 

A skilful emblematist invented this elegant em- 
blem. 

Hast thou a mind to embroil and disturb us t 

He found an emerald in the sand. 

We intend to emit it this morning. 

She did not forbid us empaling it. 

Thou must end it, if thou hast begun it.. 

I did not forbid him endorsing it. 

I detest both an enigma and an enigmatist. 

Thou must engrasp it, but thou shalt not englut 
it. 

Jlast not thou prevented me from engraving it ? 

I enlisted but ten men this morning. 



130 THE METHOD 

Thou wilt not enmesh them anon. 

She left them without enrobing them. 

The emblematist bid me enrol it. 

Hast thou not shut up the enrolment. 

We prevented him from enslaving us. 

Hast thou a mind to entoil or to entrap them ? 

Thou hast no ground for naming me an epi^ 

tomist. 
She did not forbid me erasing it. 
We did not intend evading them. 
We did not prevent him from evaporating it. 
Thou hast forgot its most eventful moments. 
That sad event prevented our embarking. 
He did not intend evolving this emblem. 
Thou must prevent him from fabling. 
Hast thou not beheld that fading plant ? 
I did not ask for a fag end. 
Thou art a stout lad and wilt not fag anon. 
Hast thou a mind to famish them ? 
This event must bring about famishment. 
He had no fan, nor did he fan me. 
If thou hast no fang, thou wilt not fang them. 
Thou wilt find them nat far from our yard. 
I am told that this fardel did not belong to him. 
We sold hira our farmost farm. 
Hast not thou a mind to farm this land? 
We did not fast, nor did we run fast. 
So fatal an event did not astonish the brutish 

fatalist. 
I sold him this fatling for a trifiing sura. 
Hast thou not found this felt in that fen ; 
Hast not thou a mind to fend them ? 
We shun fetid plants, but v/e avoid bad men. 
He did not grant me the fifth part. 
I sold him a fig igr a farthing. 
This figment did not entrap us. 



OF TEACHING. 131 

I did not forbid him filing it. 

I intend to split that film. 

The filth prevented us from going in. 

He did not forbid us filtrating it. 

That old fish lost a fin. 

We intend fining him for it. 

If thou hast begun it, thou must finish it. 

We intend to fish in yon fish pond. 

He did not bid us fit it up for him. 

Pie prevented me striking this shark with a fizgig. 

We hunt for a flag, but we begin to fag and to 

flag. 
Hast thou not beheld our flaming barn ? 
Wilt thou flap them without having a flap ? 
I did not dash nor did I flash. 
Thou must hold this flask for me. 
Must the sound be flat or sharp ? 
Hast thou not tasted its flesh ? 
We found the fleshpots in that apartment. 
Our antagonist began to fling out. 
Thou hast hunted for the flint, hast thou found 

it? 
Hast thou a mind to lash or to flog them ? 
That florist sold me this floret for a florin. 
I sent him the best fl.our we had. 
We flouted him, but he did not mind our flout. 
Must it be fluid or solid ? 
Hast not thou a mind to flush them ? 
The sun did not dispel the fog in the morning. 
Thou hast a mind to foist this figment upon us. 
Wilt thou fold them without having a fold. 
I am told that he foments them. 
Hast thou a mind to insult our fondling. 
Thou must finish the font this morning. 
Thou hast no gi'ound for naming him a fond old 

'fop. 



±S% THE METHOD 

Hast not thou a mind to prohibit gaming ? 

Thou must forget that I am forest-born. 

He did not forbid me forgiving them. 

I am a forlorn man, wilt thou not help me ? 

This fork lost its best prong. 

Did I not bid him finish this form. 

Thou blamest me for naming him a formalist. 

We burnt the fortin, but we did not burn the 
fort. 

Must the forum be round or oblong ? 

She did not prevent me from laving this foul 
lining. 

We founded our tenets on a solid basis. 

Thou art a foundling, but thou art not forlorn. 

Thou hast got but a fragment. 

Let me behold that fragrant plant. 

Did he not prevent us from framing a solid plan ? 

Did he not ask for fresh milk ? 

Thou namest me a fretful man, and yet I did not 
fret. 

I am not brisk, but I am apt to frisk and to skip. 

Our brig ran aground in a frith. 

I am told that he did not skip to and fro. 

The frog began to sing in the spring. 

Thou wilt find frog-bit in yon forest, and frog- 
fish in that pond. 

Hast not thou worn a frontlet ? 

Thou mistakest froth for a hard and solid thing. 

I am told that thou art a frugal man. 

We frump a man, but we frush a thing. 

Our antagonist had not frustrated our plan. 

Thou takest a plump lad for a fub. 

Hast not thou a mind to fulfil it ? 

Thou hast not prevented them from fumbling. 

Thou makest fuik without liking it. 

Thou must not spend our fc^nd. 



OF I'EACHING. 133 

Did I not bid him furbish, polish, and burnish 
them ? 

It must be distant about a furlong from that forest. 

I did not bid him furnish this furfur. 

He did not gad, but he hunted for a gad. 

If thou metest its fust, thou wilt find out its length. 

He detested that gabel, and so did I. 

Hast thou a mind to gag him without having a 
gag ? 

He sold me this galbanum for a florin. 

Hast thou not run the gantlet with him ? 

Wilt thou not stop up that gap ? 

I did not prevent him from gargling himself. 

Hast thou worn a garland in so bad a garb ? 

That garboil prevented me from garbling them. 

Did he not fling our garments in the pond. 

Thou wilt find no garnets in that sand. 

Hast thou a mind to garnish them ? 

He detests both our ornaments and our garnish- 
ments. 

He had a gash, but I did not gash him. 

Our gasping did not gast them. 

Thou blamest me for gazing at him. 

I sold him a fat pig for a gazet. 

I am glad that he did not return. 

Thou shalt not split this gland. 

He told me that it must be both glib and hard* 

Did I not forbid them gliding this morning? 

Thou hast no ground for glouting. 

Thou blamest them for glozing. 

We intend gluing them this morning. 

Hast not thou a mind to glut them I 

Thou takest the goblet from him. 

Thou adorest a benevolent God. 

Thou takest a goblin for a godling. 

I sold him a godwit for a florin. 

21 



13* THE MEl HOD 

We find no gold in our land. 

Thouilikest a golding without being a goldsmith. 

We left the gormand in the gondola. 

We founded our tenets on the gospel. 

Did he not abhor our best gifts ? 

He hid himself behind that gig. 

Hast not thou a mind to gild them ? 

I punish him for spoiling this gilding. 

Thou hast lost a gimlet and I found it. 

Thou blamest him for giving me this gimp. 

Hast thou not prevented him from gormandizing. 

Thou shalt not go out, for thou hast the gout. 

Thou propagatest plants without grafting them. 

It must be both a grand and splendid thing. 

We beheld a grampus from our ship. 

Our grandam did not grant it to us. 

We lost our grapnel in the frith. 

Thou likest a harsh and grating sound. 

He did not grasp it, nor did I. 

I did not gravel our yard, for I had no gravel. 

Wilt thou prevent a dog from grazing ? 

Hast thou beheld that grim hero ? 

Thou hast not prevented them from griming it. 

Our grimalkin bit our fat dog. 

Hast thou not ground our grist yet ? 

If thou smilest, thou wilt not grin. 

Thou wilt find no sand in that grip. 

I prevented him from griping this griskin. 

Did he ask for grist or for grit ? 

The dart did not hit its groin. 

He prevented me from groping along. 

We ground our tenets on the gospel. 

We found an elegant grot in the foreet. 

Thou wilt find no groundling in our pond. 

Wilt thou get no^rout for our hog ? 

She did not bid me grub that fragrant shrub. 



OF TEACHING. 135 

We had no fur, nor did we fur it. 

This did not prevent them from grumbling. 

This hog grunts without being a gruntling. 

Our ship stranded in the gulf. 

I had no gum, nor did I gum it. 

Thou must prevent him from gulping it. 

We kept our ship within gunshot. 

Our old gunsmith sold me a bad gun. 

It run but it did not gush. 

Thou likest a gustful bit. 

Thou art not gifted with gust. 

She did not bid me gut this hen. 

Thou blamest me for having so bad a habit. 

Hast not thou a mind to habit them ? 

Hast thou beheld the splendid halo around the 

sun ? 
He started this morning from our hamlet. 
Hast thou a mind to hamstring me ? 
W^e must get them hand to mouth. 
Wilt not thou grant me a handful ? 
He did not forbid me handling this hand gun. 
If thou bitest me so hard thou wilt hurt me. 
Hast thou not forgot our hardships yet? 
He did not hark, but I did; 
Hast not thou got this harl from me ? 
If thou harmest so benevolent a man thou must be 

a harmful lad. 
Thou hast prevented our harmonizing its parts. 
She did not harp, for she had no harp. 
He sold me this hartshorn for a florin. 
We shot a fat hart this morning. 
We must get in our harvest. 
Thou hast got but ten harvest men. 
I did not prevent him from hashing it. 
Thou must shut it with a hasp. 
He sold me the harslet for a song. 



136 THE METHOD 

Thou must get a hat band for this hat. 

Thou must not depart in this hebdomad. 

I prevented him from hebitating them. 

That hebraist hath not hurt us. 

Wilt thou hehn our ship without a helm ? 

He did not ask for our help, nor did we help him. 

Hast thou not a mind to hem them in ? 

We import no hemp from that land. 

We must prevent him from bending it. 

Thou must transform this heptagon into a tetragon. 

Thou wilt get it if thou hiest. 

We shot the stag but the hind fled. 

I kept the hind part for the hindmost. 

He hinted at it, but thou hast not felt the hint. 

He burnt himself from the leg up to the hip. 

He told me that thou art hipshot. 

I told him thou hast not hit it. 

I did not forbid him hiving them. 

The hobgoblin did not punish them for it. 

The hodman hunts for a hod in our yard. 

He did not prevent me from hoeing it. 

I held it up, but he held it fast. 

Thou must avoid that holdfast. 

Thou hopest that thou wilt find hops. 

I am told that he did not hop. 

The departing sun left our horizon. 

Thou takest a horn for an instrument. 

Thou mistakest a hornet for a horn fish. 

Did we not repel the invading host? 

We must transplant them into a hotbed. 

Wilt thou skin this hot potato ? 

The hotspur flung the pot at me. 

Wilt thou hunt hound fish with a hound I 

Did she not hug a brutish dog? 

He did not bid ua burn its hulk. 

The proud artist detests our hum. 



OF TEACHING. 157^ 

Thou blamest me for having a hump. 

Hast not thou elated our huntsmanship? 

An old huntsman found our hunting horn. 

Hast not thou flung this hurlbat at him ? 

We did not hurl our darts at them. 

Hast not thou a mind to hush him ? 

Hast not thou prevented me from husking them ? 

Did not the hotspur bid us burn that hut ? 

We must prevent them from idolatrizing this god- 

Thou hast not forbid him idolizing me. 

Thou must prevent him from idling. 

The man that hath no idea, must be an ignorant 

man. 
If thou ignorest this, then thou art an ignoramus. 
I did not prevent him from imbibing it with milk. 
Hast not thou a mind to imbound it ? 
Let us prevent him from imbruting this lad. 
Thou hast prevented our imps from harming him. 
Did he not bid us impark this ground? 
Thou blamest me for imparting it to them. 
The gout impeded me from going out. 
We must not impel them, but we must repel them. 
Thou deplorest our impending ruin. 
Hast thou not impetrated it yet ? 
We intend impeding its impetus. 
He prevented me from impignorating it. 
Thou shalt not implant them in it. 
We must get our implements mended. 
Thou hast prevented him from imploring our help. 
Wilt thou ruin so important an establishment? 
Wilt thou insult so impotent a man ? 
Hast not thou a mind to impound them ? 
Hast thou not imprinted it on the bark ? 
I prevented him from improbating our plan. 
This improvided event prevented our embarking*. 

yi2 



"^^^ THE METHOP 

Thou mistakest him for an imprudent man. 

I am told that thou hast not indagated it. 

Our indented lad fled from us. 

Thou art both independent and indevout. 

Our indignant antagonists did not hurt us. 

Wilt thou prevent so indolent a man froip* ruining 
himself? 

Hast thou a mind to ask for an indulto ? 

We sold our inelegant harp last morning. 

Thou art not inept, but thou art a triiiing lad. 

I prevented him from infaming them. 

Our infanta lost an infant this morning. 

A mad dog infests our hamlet. 

Did he not forbid us inflam^ing them ? 

We must find out our informant. 

He did not intend to inform us. 

We must send this ingot to the mint* 

We intend to ingraft our plants. 

We inhabit an elegant hamlet. 

Thou hast prevented me from inhaling it. 

I am told that thou intendest to inhibit us. 

Thou drivest us from the inland. 

The timid dog hid himself in the inmost grot ^ 

We must prevent him from inshrining it. 

The goldsmith did not insist upon it. 

He did not forbid us insolating them. 

I am insolvent, but thou art insolent. 

Thou wilt not prevent our inspiring them. 

He must return in an instant. 

He burnt himself from the hip to the instep. 

Thou art instrumental in making them sharp. 

The intendant did not intromit us. 

Thou hast not prevented him from intruding up« 

on us. 
Thou must not intrust him with it. 
He invaded us, but we durst not repel him* 



OF TEACmXG, 139 

Tiiou wilt not be invested with that post. 

Our hist winter invigorated them. 

Thou must fit up this investment for me. 

Thou shalt not prevent me from inviting them, ' 

Thou likest to be inumbrated. 

He did not prevent them from invoking us. 

Me did not forbid me involving them. 

I am going to inurn our grandam. 

Thou hast not sent me the keg yet. 

Thou hast intended to kidnap us. 

This thing must be within our ken. 

Wilt thou swop this kelp for that keg? 

Thou hast not prevented him from kindling it. 

We abhor a king and we detest kingship. 

Thou mistakest a kid for a kit. 

We must be kind to them without being akin to 

them. 
He got this labdanum from a fragrant shrub. 
Thou hast torn the label from it. 
We did not prevent them from lading it* 
I am told that he did not lag. 
We punish them for laming him. 
I lament that he did not depart. 
He sold me this lamp for a florin. 
He did not prevent our landing. 
Our landlord hath set up this landmark. 
Did not the lapdog lap the milk? 
I lament that he did not prevent our lapsing. 
We had no lard, nor did we lard him. 
Thou wilt find larkspur without beholding a larkl^ 
Did not so fatal an event alarm him ? 
I did not lash him, but he intended to lash me. 
Hast thou, at last, found the lost last? 
If thou hast, thou wilt not be belated. 
Hast not thou a mind to lath it ? 
If thou waste St a thing thou art a lavish mat!* 



140 THE METHOD 

We spent it but we did not lavish it. 

We must punish a lazing lad, but we must not ab- 
hor a lazar. 

Thou hast hurt its left leg. 

He did not bid me transplant this lentisk. 

Thou mistakest a lentil for a big thing. 

1 must shun it lest I get hurt. 

Thou shalt not libel so benevolent a man. 

He prevented me from librating it. 

Hast not thou split the lid ? 

Hast not thou lifted it from the ground ? 

Thou must bind them with a strong ligament. 

He did not forbid me liming them. 

Thou hast torn its lining. 

Wilt not thou punish him for making a lip ? 

I hid no lint upon the lintel. 

Thou must not punish him for lisping. 

He did not list to depart from the list. 

Thou shalt not prevent our taking that living from 
him. 

The lizard hid himself in the ground. 

Thou hast not prevented its tumbling from the 
loft. 

He sold me this big log for a florin. 

Thou shalt not get this loin for so trifling a sum.. 

I did not long for so long a winter. 

Did not our kind king dub him aloud ? 

Thou must not grant him this lordship. 

Our lordling sold me this lot. 

Our dog did not bark loud. 

He detests this loutish garment. 

I prevented him from inviting that lout. 

Thou must not lug them so far. 

Thou hast a mind to lump it. 

Wilt thou mesh so lumpish a lumpEsh. 

It did not hit its left lung. 



©F TEACHING, 1*1 

I am told that lie lurks in that grot. 

If I lust for a thing, I am a lustful man. 

Did not I shun that madman ? 

We found a big magnet in that grot. 

We shun and detest malignant men. 

Hast not thou a mind to man this fort ? 

Did he not ask for a mandamus ? 

Thou likest a bold and manful lad. 

I did not forbid him mantling it. 

Thou wilt find our hamlet on that map. 

Hast thou a mind to mar our plan ? 

I did not prevent him from marbling it. 

Wilt not thou rub out that mark ? 

We got this marl from a marlpit. 

Thou likest marmalet, but thou hatest turnips. 

Did not the marshal bid us marshal our men? 

He ran from a marsh to a fen and from a fen to a 
bog. 

He left the mart without having sold them. 

The martlets return in the spring. 

I found a martingal behind that bush. 

That event did not astonish him, nor did I marvel 
at it. 

He did not prevent me from mashing it. 

Our brig lost a mast in the last storm. 

I am glad that thou art mending. 

Thou mislikest our misliving. 

We mispend our best moments. 

We detest a misreport, and punish him that mis- 
reports a thing. 

Did not the morning sun dispel the lurid mist ? 

We must prevent him from mistiming it. 

Our antagonists intend to mob us. 

Thou hast not beheld this model yet. 

She detests both a modish and a loutish man. 

Hast thou a mind to toil and moil sq long ? 



1^2 THE METHOD 

I detest a moist, wet, and damp garment. 

Thou hast not molested us. 

If thou monopolizest it, thou art a monopolist, and 
wilt be hated for it. 

If I mop a thing, I rub it with a mop. 

We must prevent him from moping them. 

Hast not thou forgot the moral yet ? 

Wilt thou prevent our moralists from moralizing ?- 

Hast thou a mind to run about with this morbid 
leg? 

!No mortal durst prevent him from restoring it. 

Wilt thou harm the most unharmful man t 

Thou mistakest a boud for a moth. 

Thou shalt not slop its motor yet. 

I did stand on that elevated mound. 

Hast not thou a mind to mount this elevated gun ? 

He granted me but a mouthful. 

It did not shut its mouth for a moment. 

Did not I bid you mud that fiuid ? 

Hast thou lifted this mug from the ground ? 

Thou art a multivagrant lad. 

We must prevent him from mumbling and grum- 
bling. 

Thou mumpest but I am not in the mumps. 

The shining star did not dispel the murk. 

We did not murmur at our lot. 

Thou hast got this musk in our shop. 

Thou likest must, but thou mislikest dust. 

I prevented him from riding on our nag. 

He prevented me from taking a nap. 

Hast not thou lent him a napkin ? 

He did not bid me transplant this nard. 

Hast thou beheld the naval hero in the ncf ? 

Our negro found a nest on that shrub. 

Thou hast torn @ur best net. 

©id not the frost nip our plants ? 



OF TEACHING. 1^3 

Hast thou beheld that nitid star ? 

The proud man did not nod to me. 

Hast thou a mind to nonplus me ? 

I am told that thou art a noted artist. 

Thou hast prevented the benevolent nun from nur- 
sing me. 

We found no nuts in that forest. 

Wilt thou swop this nutmeg for a nut ? 

Thou must not obtund this sharp instrument. 

Hast thou a mind to omit that. 

I did not hurl this orb so far. 

"We must prevent him from spoiling our organ. 

Our organist detests this ornament. 

He did not form this elegant orthogon. 

We must ask for an orthoepist. 

We intend to oust that lumping lout. 

He did not outbid our antagonist. 

An outbound ship got aground. 

She prevented us from outbraving our bold an- 
tagonists. 

Thou takest an outlet for an inlet. 

Our antagonists did not outwit us. 

Hast thou not sung a pagan song? 

If thou adorest a pagod, thou art a blind pagan. 

Thou hast beheld a palish and a nited star. 

The pad found no panada in the pan. 

She felt an agonizing pang. 

Hast not thou panted for a lordship ? 

Papa fed the infant with pap. 

Hast thou not sold it at par ? 

I shot him from behind the parapet. 

This parasol shaded me from the burning sua. 

Did I not bid him parboil it ? 

He durst not establish himself in our parish. 

He fed us with parsnips and milk. 

I intend to part with it anon. 



144 THE METHOD 

We must prevent him from parting it. 

Hast not thou got a patent for it ? 

Did I not bid them patrol around the forest ? 

We did not mispend our pelf. 

I had no peg nor did I peg it. 

Hast not thou petted them with turnips ? 

I had no pen nor did I pen that instrument. 

She lost a pendant in the yard. 

Wilt thou transform this pentagon into a tetragon ? 

If thou hast a pen, thou must pen them up. 

He did not pet me, nor am I a pet. 

I did not prevent him from planing it. 

We must marshal our men on the platform. 

A fatal plethora prevented me from going out. 

He did not plot our ruin, nor did he ruin us. 

This pluralist sets up for a poet. 

I did not forbid him poking it. 

Wilt thou polish this pointed instrument. 

Thou likest pomatum, but I detest it. 

The king put a stop to our pomp. 

Did he not abhor our popish tenets ? 

He lost a popgun, hast not thou found it ? 

Did he not bid me postil this poem ? 

Did not he forbid us postponing it ? 

We detest that potent king. 

Must I grind or pound this potash ? 

If we thrust out our lips, we pout. 

Thou art a prating and a trifling being. 

He did not merit that punishment. 

I did not prevent him from priming it. 

We did not prohibit him from probhig it. 

He did not prevent me from solving the problem. 

Did he not v/ish for a profit. 

Wilt thou debar that profound dogmatist from 

dogmatizing | 
Hast thou fo^'got so elegant a prolepsis ? 



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Thou must not prompt so prompt a hotspur. 
Thou must get a prop and prop it up. 
Thou intendest to propel it, and I intend to repel it. 
I'hou shalt not debar him from propounding it. 
Tho^i hast at length prostrated this proud an- 
tagonist. 
I protest that I did not intend protruding it so far. 
Wilt thou debar us from providing for them. 
We must prevent him from provoking us. 
Our prudish grandam did not publish it. 
Thou takest the skin from the pulp. 
Thou mistakest a desk for a pulpit. 
Hast not thou a mind to pulvil this apartment. 
XVilt thou punish him for making a pun ? 
We must get our old pump mended. 
The winter prevents it from purling. 
We must debar him from purloining them. 
Hast thou not beheld its purplish skin? 
Thou wilt not find out its purport. 
Wilt thou put up with this insult ? 
Plants put forth and sprout in the spring* 
Wilt thou not shun that rabid dog ? 
Thou hast a mind to purloin this radish. 
He bound a rag around its left leg. 
We met with a rambling ram in the forest. 
If thou hast a mind to rasp it, thou must get a 

rasp. 
Did not the rebel redemand them ? 
Thou wilt not prevent me from relenting. 
Thou wilt shun it provided thou remarkest it. 
Wilt thou debar him from renovating it. 
Wilt thou repast this renegado ? 
If thou rentest it, thou wilt repent it. 
I did not reprehend him for replenishing it. 
Thou blamest me for respiting them. 
Behold that nitid and resplendent star. 

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Let us grant no rest to our proud respondents. 

If thou retardest me, thou wilt repent it. 

Hast thou not merited that sharp and pointed 

retort ? 
Hast thou not a mind to stop up that rift. 
Did he not bid us rig the brig? 
Did not ten men standing round form a ring. 
I reprehend him for not rinsing this goblet. 
Let us be bold and run the risk. 
Our rivalship prevents him from trusting me. 
Wilt thou debar that robust man from handling 

the rod? 
Let us repel and rout the bold invading host. 
Hast thou not a mind to rub the romp with this 

pliant rod ? 
He began to sap our rotundo. 
Thou likest the saraband, but I detest it. 
Did not the king reprehend the lavish satrap ? 
We abhor sloth and detest a slothful man. 
If thou smeltest it, thou shalt smart for it. 



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PART THE SECOND. 

INGI.UDING ALL THOSE WORDS WHICH COXTAIX 
SOLTNDS IRREGULARLY REPRESENTEB. 



SECTION I. 



Including the irregular representations of the 

sound o. 

OA = O. 

I told them that the ship must be afloat. 

I had a bezoar last week, but I sold it, 

I am going to inform him that the left leg bloats. 

We shot but a boar, but he shot a stag and a boar* 

Hast thou a mind to board that Danish ship ? 

Must he not detest so swinish, so brutal, and so 

boarish a deportment? 
He did not board v/ith us last April. 
Did she not blush at our boasting? 
Am I to board with so boastful a man ? 
]^id we not send for the old boatsman ? 
He swam in our pond, but he did not float. 
Did he not swop a hen for a foal ? 
I dug up a foalbit in that damp ground. 
Did not he froth, and did not she foam ? 
I told them that he did not gloar. 
If he gloats, he must be bashful, 
I did not goad them, for I had no goad. 
The sportsman did not turn round the goal. 
This goar must be put on that plush. 
Bid not that wild goat swim in our pond? 



1*S THE MtlTHOD 

I detest so sad and groanful a being. 

That old man wept, but he did not groan. 

Had we not a hoar frost last morning ? 

He must be a madman to hoard gold. 

Did not ye load that handgun for him ? 

The loadstar must be far beyond the sun. 

Did he not bring us a big loaf? 

Did we not load it with loam ? 

So artful a man did not bring about so trifling a loan. 

I am loath to part with this foal. 

He laments that we did not moan w^ith them. 

We had a mind to moat our long yard. 

Did we not bid them dig a moat around it ? 

Did I fiing a nutmeg at that doltish oaf? 

This doltish man bid me burn that solid oak. 

1 sold that oakum, but I did not swop it for hemp, 

I told that oafish dotard to get me a long oar. 

"We had sworn, but he forgot our oath. 

We fed our pig and hen with oats. 

V/e did not find them on the old road. 

I am roving, rambling, and roaming about in the 

forest. 
Did not this roan foal belong to him ? 
Hast thou a mind to boil it, or wilt thou roast it ? 
Did the storm roar so loud without waking them ? 
Did he not strand our best and stoutest ship on 

that shoal ? 
I sold him ten big and stout sloats for a song. 
Did not I bid him soak the oats in milk ? 
This soap must be put on that sheif. 
Did he mount without soaring, or did he soar 

without mounting ? 
Hast thou found this big toad in that tod ? 
We intended to mesh a big toadfish ? 
Did not she bid ma burn the toast ? 
If thou hast not transplanted our woad yet, thou 

miist transplant it this morning. 



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I grant that that inroad did no harm to them. 
We found no froth upon its throat. 

ow = o, 

I told him that the boat must be below. 

Did not she bestow this benefit upon him? 

Did not a violent wind begin to blow at sunset? 

He did not avoid so fatal a blow. 

That old ship lost its bowsprit in the last storm. 

I found this bow on the turf behind that blowing 

oak. 
We had an old bowl that held ten pints. 
Did not he throw this big bowl at me ? 
That bowman twisted this long bowstring. 
We punish him for having flown or fled from the 

ground. 
Its growth did not long astonish us* 
No plants grow in so bad a soil. 
This oak hath grown a yard last spring. 
Thou hast no ground for being so lowspirited. 
If it must not be aloft, then it must be below. 
The sun did not burn up the lowland. 
Did not our landlord bid me mow it? 
It must be owing to him or to me, if not to both* 

that she did not get it. 
Did we not defend our own land ? 
I am going to inform them that I own it. 
Must I row this old boat up the pond ? 
Did not this riding garment belong to that elegant 

widow ? 
The plants that stand in this row must be trans-: 

planted ? 
Did I not bid him shut that window ? 
We punish him for having shown it to them. 
Its slow growth did not prevent oie from % ihS* 

planting it. 



150 THE METHOD 

I transplanted that snowdrop this morningv 

We oft get snow and frost in ApriL 

I told him that thou hast not sown the oats yet. 

She did not sow that seed this morning. 

Bid not I bid him stow it last morning ? 

I durst not throw the bov>d on the ground. 

We must transform this hemp into tow. 

Did not ten boats tow in that unmasted ship r 

That old man did not hurt himself. I trow. 

Did not that forest grow up unsown ? 

OIJ -= O. 

Did not God bestow a soul upon man ? 

I did not spoil this mould, nor did I bid him spoil. 

it. 
This old hen hath not moulted yet, I trow. 
Am I not to punish them for spoiling so elegant ?^ 

moulding ? 
We must not forget so mournful an event.. 
I met* this m.orniiig, with that mourning widow. 
I am told that that grand mourning did not last 

long. 
A rapid bourn limits that forest on the west. 
I did not bid him transplant that gourd. 
I sold him four oaks and ten wild goats. 
I did not ask for the tenth, but for the fourth ? 
Did she not merit a fourfold punishm.ent? 
She must boil four poults in that tin pot. 
We did not troul, hnt did not she turn about? 

00=0. 

Barlow did not stand long on that floor. 
He went out but he did not shut the door. 

OE = O. 

Did not our big dog outrun that old doe ? 
We must withstand and repel our brutal foe. 
Did not she bid him, show me that sour sloe i 



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Pid not I dig it up with a hoe ? 

Did not that fatal blow bring forth a mortal throe ? 

IMust I wind it around this or that toe ? 

OUGH = O. 

Wilt thou lash and thrash them both, though thou 

hast no thong ? 
Did not he spurn at so short a furlough ? 
He sold me this dough for a florin. 

EO = O. 

That old yeoman told me that we had a strongs 
hoar frost last morning. 

EW = O. 

I did not sew it, but I am going to sew it. 
I did not bid him shew them that blowing oak. 
We did not strew the ground with violets. 
Hast not thou shewn this shad to our landlord ? 

OWE = O. 
We own that we owe our ruin to our bad deport- 
ment. 
He owed me four but she owed me ten. 
Hast not thou mowed it for me ? 
She showed me into the btst apartment. 
He sowed it long ago, but it did not grow up. 

EAU =-- O. 
We found but a beauish stripling on the floor. 
That apish fop insulted a glowing beau. 
Put this portmanteau upon that old nag. 
Did not I bid him put out that flambeau. 

OH = O. 
Oh, that I did not forthwith punish them for it ! 

WO = o. 

The sword fits the hiU and the hilt fits the sword* 
I met this morning with four sworded men. 
W^e beheld an old shark devour a big swordfish* 
That swordman insulted us, but he repents lU 



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SECTION II. 

Containing' the Irregular representatiGns of the 

sound a. 

AI = A. 

I am not afraid to part with this flour. 

Did not I oft bid him abstain from going out about 
dusk ? 

I wish that I had shewn him this agnail. 

He did not help us, nor did she aid us. 

I told him that she did not ask for our aid. 

So aidant and helpful a man found no aid then^ 

This agnail did not ail me last morning. 

That trifling ailment did not last long. 

Did she not help that ailing infant ? 

I did not aim at it, but I am going to aim at it. 

We found no flints on that sloping ait. 

I pretend that he did not hit it amain. 

Did not she bail that trifling and ignorant atomistf 

I did not bait it, for I had no bait at hand. 

I told him to paint that old bedpost. 

Long did he bevv-ail that fatal blow. 

She did not form this long and elegant braid. 

I intend to blow out its brain with this handgun. 

Did not that brainish shrimp spoil our best apart- 
ment ? 

I did not shew them that brainpan. 

Its ailment must be owing to this blain. 

Did not she bid me depaint him ? 

He did not deraiii it, but I am going to derain St 
for him* 



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Thou hast related it without detailing it. 

This detail did not long detain me. 

She told me that I must distain them amain. 

I told him that we did not distrain that lot. 

This distraint did not disturb them. 

If we dig a drain, it must be for draining our 

yard. 
She did not entail it upon us. 
If thou failest, thou wilt ruin us. 
Did not we remark that failing long ago. 
I am not fain to part with so faithful a man. 
I told him that she did not faint. 
Our fainting did not disturb them. 
We owe our ruin to our faintling deportment. 
Did we not, at length, grant him our faith ? 
I did not thrash our grain, for I had no flail. 
Did he not shew them this elegant frail ? 
I did not intrust so frail and trifling a man with 

so gainful and important a post. 
We must aim to gain that distant spot. 
So slow a gait befits an old man. 
Did it not hail last morning in yon forest ? 
We did not hail that Spanish ship. 
I run amain ; but it did not avail me a fig. 
She laid the smiling infant upon a soft bed. 
We had lain hid behind the hiding bush. 
That beauish stripling insulted the mourning 

maid. 
The trifling postman lost the mail on the road. 
Did not I forbid him to maim them ? 
We roam about on the foaming and roaring main. 
He stranded our best ship, not far from the main 

land. 
Did not we finish four mainmasts this morning? 
A violent wind split our mainsail. 
Did he not get four men hung from the main yard ? 



154 THE METHOD 

Did not this oakum drop from the main top ? 

He told me that she mislaid that elegant milk 

bowl. 
I told our milkmaid to get me a blowing milfoil. 
I intend to swop this milk pan for that milk pail. 
I told him last morning to nail that old door fast. 
I paid him for pruning this shrub. 
I sold him a pailful for an old song. 
We must get a pail to put this milk in it. 
It felt a sharp pain in its left arm. 
To be thus retarded must be a painful thing. 
Did that potent painim throw so sharp a dart 

at us ? 
Did not I bid him paint this desk red ? 
Had he no paint to finish that elegant painting? 
Four old oaks stand in that vast plain. 
Our plaint did not disturb so plaintful a widow. 
Art not thou going to plait it with me ? 
I did not ordain him, but I am going to ordain 

him, 
I did not aim to prevail upon him. 
I laid a long rail upon that short post. 
She prevented me from railing this lot ; but she 

did not rail at me. 
Did not he shew me that elegant rainbow? 
We owe our best raiments to that old shopman. 
It did not oft rain last spring. 
Did not a violent storm bring forth the last rain ? 
He lost a florin, but did he not aim to regain it I 
He did not remain long at that post. 
He did so, but I paid and repaid him for it. 
Did not I plait and replait this plush? 
He told us loud ihat we must restrain them. 
So malevolent a restraint did not last long. 
Barlow sold it tame, but I retail it. 
C?io and ask him, if he did or did not retain them. 



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The said bold men did not sail but swim up that 
vast pond. 

He did not hit the sail, but the sail yard. 

This sainted deportment befits so vain a saint. 

Our antagonist did not aim at saintship. 

We did not punish him for having slain that bold 
varlet. 

Did not I find this slow snail on the bark ? 

Did it sprain its left arm or its left leg ? 

This painful sprain prevents me from throwing 
the dart. 

It prevented him from remarking our staid de- 
portment. 

Did not she stain four shifts this morning? 

Did not she bid me strain this milk? 

He told me that I must find out a strait. 

If I prop it, I hold it up ; and if I hold it up, I 
sustain it. 

This trifling swain mislaid our most elegant milk 
pail. 

I found a long tagtail not far from that tamarisk. 

Did not God furnish the stag with a short tail ? 

I told him to taint it with milk. 

Did not we trail a wild boar and a doe ? 

Did not I train them up for this ? 

Did not we import our best train oil from Lap- 
land ? 

We did not remark so bold a trait in him. 

This wild hog lost its twain long tusks. 

We did not vail so vain and trifling an anta- 
gonist. 

That old shopman sold me this wagtail. 

In vain did we wail, moan and groan j she did not 
grant it. 

That wailful widow did not wait for them. 

Did not I bid them load that wain with tow ? 



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The pointed dart hit him below the waist. 

EI = A. 

I intend to swop this rein for a flail. 
An elegant veil hid the finest form from us. 
We did not veil so vast and important a plan, 
I told him to stop up the vein. 

AY = A. 

He did not inform me that he went astray. 

I told Sal to shut that bay window. 

That bay dog did not bay at us. 

Four Spanish ships sail up our bay. 

Did not he bid them belay our bay ? 

This prevented us from betraying our trust. 

Did not this blay swim up the pond ? 

I told him this morning to bray it. 

If the sun sets, the day departs. 

Must I furnish this apartment with a day bed ? 

Did not I pray him to shew me the day star ? 

I sold this old dray to that stout drayman. 

We did not throw our pelf away. 

Did not this ship set sail from Spain with a fay 

on board ? 
Did not the brutal lad flay a living dog ? 
So violent a fray did not fray us. 
He told me to show this gay beau that eiegani: 

rainbow. 
We had a gray that had a grey tail. 
We found but a grayling in our net. 
Did I not swop our old hay for a dray ? 
Did not he bid us inlay this floor ? 
Our latinizing antagonist lay on a day bed. 
We did not intend to display our real strength. 
Our old hen did tiot lay this morning. 
Did not that la}niian lay up this old hay ? 



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He forgot to load the gun. 

May I swop this rein for that flail? 

He durst not demolish this old hut last May. 

Did not she mislay that elegant veil. 

I durst not demand, nay, I durst not pray for it. 

We must not forget the last pay day. 

Must I then await this payment. 

He did not play with us last morning. 

She did not play with so playful a lad. 

We owe this last play to our best poet. 

Did not she play with us on our last play day ? 

I pray to God that she may gain it. 

Did not she bid me portray him ? 

Did not the red ray turn to the le^ 

Hast not thou paid yet for that relay ? 

I sav that he hath not thrown it away. 

Hast not thou forgot that old saying? 
We did not intend to slay him. 

Did not this robin sit and sing on that spray? 
Must not our stay depend on our deportment? 
I w^ish that he may long stay with us. 
Did I not pray him to delay a moment? 
I wish that he may stray from so bad a road. 
That old stray dog must be mad. 
He did not long sway so sharp and pointed a sword. 
We did not play at tray trip. 
Did not I lay it upoa that tray? 
He may go this way, or that way. 
Did I not prevent you from waylaying that impru- 
dent man ? 
Did not I bid them put or set up a waymark on 
yon elevated spot ? 

AYE = A. 

Though I am unwayed, yet I arn going to depart 
this moment. 

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Our foal strayed last morning from our yard. 

31.ast spring we oft played with him. 

That big dog bayed at us in the hind yard. 

Four men inform me that thou hastbetrayed them. 

He did not sing, but he brayed. 

I wish that he had not prayed me for it. 

That brutal hobgoblin flayed a living dog. 

The storm had grown so violent that, at last, it 

frayed us. 
I wish that we had not displayed our real strength. 
I portrayed it, and sold its portrait for a florin. 
I stayed with them but a moment. 
A strong and long rain delayed the harvest. 
With the left l|^nd he swayed a pointed sword. 

EY = A. 

The old bey went away about dusk. 

Did not the dey bid us admit that Danish ship into 
our port ? 

That old varlet shot our best greyhound. 

Pray did he not prey upon it 'i 

They went out this morning and they did not re- 
turn. 

I wish that thou mayest get a trey. 

They did not obey our mild behests. 

Did not they bid me purvey them ? 

I did not bid him survey our land. 

Must not they finish this survey ? 

EYE = A. 

Our fat dog preyed upon that poult. 
Thou hast not obeyed our mild behests. 
We purveyed them last spring. 
They surveyed our lot this morning. 

EA = A. 

I punish him for breaking this bowl. 
I did not depend upon so great a man. 
He told me to hand him this steak. 



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AIG = A. 
I wish that he may deraign it. 

EIG = A. 
I wish that our bsicl king may not reign long. 
They feign a great longing for staying with us. 
He did not deign to grant it to me. 

AIGH = A. 
I told him that it must be straight. 

EIGH = A. 

I did not weigh it. pray go and Aveigh it for me. 
Did he neigh? No, he did not neigh. 
They inform me that it had not its weight. 
Did not eight shopmen break last morning? 
We intend to freight eight ships and ten boats. 
He may inveigh or not ; we must return iti 

EIGHE = A. 

Hast thou not weighed it yet ? 

Wilt thou punish a nag for having neighed ? 

They inveighed, but we did not mind it. 



SECTION III. 



Compreheiidhig the irregular representations of the 

sound e. 

EE = E. 
I found him asleep not far from that old oak. 
Did not a v;ild bee sting him? 
I found three nests on that blowing ash. 
We sold our fresh beef to that lad. 
We must get strong beer for them. 
I am going to plant out fourteen or fifteen beets. 
I say that it did not beseem them, 
The spring must be betv/een this bush and that oak. 



i69 <FiiE METHOD 

We lost a great man and we weep foi* hini« 
Did not both its hind feet bleed ? 
Did she not breed three weeks ago ? 
Did we not pay him for breeding them ? 
We may deem the last breed lost. 
We must not forget so bad a deed. 
Must it be fourteen or fifteen feet deep ? 
We shot but three deer lust morning. 
The sun mav be about a degree below the horizon. 
I did not bid him eek it in this way. 
A sleeping eel may lurk in that mud. 
We owe him our esteem for so kind and benevo- 
lent a deed. 
They did not esteem so great a king. 
He forgot to send us our fee. 
Did not we fee him for eighteen weeks. 
I told him to feed our old dog with beef. 
He did not let me throw this feed away. 
May we not feel the shining sun ? 
Did not he flee from so potent a foe ? 
I bet that he did not see our fleer. 
He reports that he hath seen the Danish fleet. 
That huntsman did not own so fleet a greyhound. 
Let us hold our fleeting moments fast. 
This land must be a freehold or a fee farm* 
They pretend to be freed men. 
I am not free to grant it to thee. 
Did not we free them last week ? 
Must not a free man be free to speak ? 
Did not I shew him the freezing point ? 
They did not heed our behests. 
She told me that they deluded so heedful a man. 
Did not the hindmost ship heel ? No, she did not. 
This infant must feel a sharp pain in its left heel. 
He must be a benevolent man indeed ! 
The keel must be fifteen or eighteen feet long. 



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Put that keel vat on the ground. 

Did not I see him brandish that keen sword I 

We intend to keep about fourteen sheep. 

Did not they stand on the lee board ? 

I told him to keep the lee for me. 

Our old maid planted that leek between a tree and 

a shrub. 
So great a glee did not last long. 
Did not he gloat at that gleeful maid? 
Did not our gleek ravish that wild man ? 
Did it not gleet for three or four weeks ? 
Did not she leer at that elegant beau ^ 
Did not I see them on the last leet? 
He repaid our gift with this meed. 
We did not punish so meek a lad. 
I did not meet him on the road. 
They held a meeting last week at our hotel. 
Go and shew him the meer beyond that forest.. 
I deem that they need not be afraid. 
I did not esteem that punishment to be needful. 
I deem that three outward streets need paving. 
I told him to outweed so bad a plant. 
Throw this peel out at the window. 
He did not prevent me from peeling this potato. 
I wish that he may get a peep at it. 
The day hath not yet begun to peep. 
I wish that they may get a peer for him. 
Did not she peep at that peevish beau ? 
Art thou going to punish him for our misdeed? 
Reed, I deem, must grow in this low and wet 

ground. 
If they reek, thou wilt see them reek. 
He sold a reel for three poults. 
Thou needest not refrain from reeling. 
He greeted us, but we did not regreet him. 
Thou hast thrown a seed on the wet ground. 

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We had a Greek and a Turk on board our ship.. 

Dur;it. not I sneer at that ignorant greekling ? 

I durst not peep into the green apartment. 

Put this greenish pod on that shelf. 

Let us send our greeting to our grandam. 

Did not this green weed grow in a wet spot? 

I see that our plants begin to seed. 

I foiind this seed lop not far from that green bush* 

I wish that they may not forget to weed this seed 

plot. 
He did not seem to esteem our sworded men. 
Did not the frost hurt that seedling? 
He did not deign to seek for our help. 
I aid not seel them, but I am going to seel them. 
He did not let me seeth this green weed. 
Am i to punish them for having seen it ? 
It may be sheer, though it may be far from being 

sheen. 
We sold our sheep with our sheep fold. 
He may be bashful without being sheepish. 
I laid the sheets he asks for on that shelf. 
If this bed hath no sheets we must sheet it. 
It may be sleek, though she did not sleek it. 
Did not he sleep on that day bed ? 
Last week we had rain, snow, hail, and sleet. 
Last week it snowed, but this week it sleets. 
She smek at it v/ithout sneezing. 
He went on without heeding our sneer. 
If thou speedest thou wilt find him on the spot. 
I sneer at thee for liking so fretful^ peevish, and 

spleenful a man. 
Did not I see him riding along on a foaming steed I 
This boat must be loaded with steel. 
The smith forgot to steel this sword. 
Old David lent nm this steel yard. 
^Did not the ground seem to be steep ? 



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He must steep or soak it in sweet milk. 

We sold him our fat steer last week. 

He then began to steer the ship to the left. 

They intend to turn me out iiuo the streets. 

Did not I see him sweep this apartment? 

M'e punish him for having torn our sweep net. 

Put this sweet milk in that milk pail. 

Must it be sour, sweet, or sweetish ? 

Did he not swop a nut for a sweeting ? 

Did not that sad and fatal event teem with our- 
ruin ? 

Did not the wind veer this morning to the north- 
west ? 

Wilt not thou transplant that we plant ? 

Did he not depart on a week day ? 

I weet that he did not long weep for him. 

I weet that thou hast played with them. 

EA = E. 

He told iHb a great deal about it but I forgot it. 
If she prevents them from going out she must bei 

afeard. 
We did not aread him to play with them. 
She weeps for having lost a shining bead. 
A stork sleeps with its beak shut. 
I see a great heal on its left leg. 
This beam must be at least eighteen feet long. 
Put this green bean in that bowl. 
A man may be big and stout without having a long 

beard. 
I see that they intend to beard me, but I am going 

to show them that I am bearded. 
Did he behold that wild beast without trembling? 
I got a sound beating for it, but I did not mind it. 
Hast thou a mind to sleep beneath that shading* 

tree? 



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Did not tlie slut besmear that bed post ^ 

Did not she bespeak them last week ? 

Wilt thou go a hunting on so bleak a day I 

The left, at least, we must admit to be blear. 

A sheep bleats and a dog barks. 

We put a living bream in that pond. 

Hast thou a mind to prevent us from breathing? 

Thev did not deal with us to our liking. 

They must detest us for our foul dealing with 

them. 
We had an old dean on board our ship. 
Hast thou a mind to bestow so fat a deanship on 

him ? 
Did he not punish thee for breaking so dear a bowl I 
We owe our ruin to that fatal defeat. 
I wish that they may defeat so potent a foe. 
Did he not demean himself with great art ? 
They oft dream without being asleep. 
She treated us with a long and trifling dt^am. 
On our left hand lay a drear and vast forfst. 
I shot three eaglets with this handgun. 
I bet that they did not see its left ear. 
Did not I bid them ear this ground ? 
Hast not thou seen that hurtful earwig? 
Did not the grain begin to ear last week? 
The sun gets up in the east and sets in the west. 
Did not I forbid thee eating meat? 
He did not hear me until 1 began pushing him 

with the left elbow. 
Did not so benevolent a deed endear thee to them ? 
The great endearment did not last three weeks. 
They durst not entreat thee. 
I fear them not, but they fear me. 
We grounded our fear on a trifling dream. 
Thoii hast to deal with a fearful and desponding 

being* 



OF TEACMrNTG. ±65 

That treat or feast lasted three or four weeks. 

Did we not feast them on that feastful day ? 

He related to them our most astonishing feats. 

So neat a thing must belong to a feat and skilful lad. 

Did not I forbid thee feazing this string ? 

Did not a flea leap from the floor upon that bed ? 

Did not that spot on its skin seem to be a flea, 
bite ? 

I see that she lost but three or four fleaks. 

Pray lend me a fleam to bleed our fat steer. 

I did not forbid him fleaking it. 

Am I not to punish him for this freak. 

Hast not thou a mind to freak this board ? 

I had to deal with a freakish antagonist. 

He shot an eaglet, and I shot a glead. 

Did not he, at last, remark the gleam ? 

A thing may gleam without flashing. 

They did not forbid us gleaning in that l6t. 

I wish that he may heal its heel in a week. 

Did not I forbid them to throw it on heaps. 

I hear that they did not heap the hay. 

They say that he lost hearing and tasting. 

This violent heat may last three weeks. 

Did not she forbid thee heating this apartment ? 

Did not this shrub grow on yon drear heath ? 

Am I not pantingj heaving, or breathing with 

pain ? 
I must pay them for heaving it on that beam. 
Did not the beam lean to the left? 
I met a lean and thin lad on the road. 
Did not he own this lean last year I 
Am I to lead them into that drear forest? 
This, I trow, must be our leading point. 
Hast not thou shewn them this green leaf f ^ 

Did^iot this oak leaf last spring? 
The hindmost ship sprang a leak. 



166 THE METHOB 

This pail did not leak last morning. 
Hast not thou seen him leap upon it ? 
He did not forbid me leasing this ground. 
Did not he hold a long leash with the left hand ? 
Did I not bid our huntsman leash that old grey- 
hound. 
He did not harm us in the least degree. 
Am I to punish him for leaving it out? 
Am I to send them this sourish mead? 
Our mealman sold me this mead last week. 
Thou livest for eating, but v/e eat for living. 
If they deal in meal, they must be mealmen^ 
They mean, I trow, no harm to us. 
They must be low and mean varlets. 
I entreat thee to find out its meanings 
Thou mayest eat a meal without eating meat* 
I planted a round pea in this pot. 
We shot a peahen from an old oak. 
May we not see the main from that elevated peak I 
They say that he did not peak last week. 
Did he not hear so loud a peal. 
We must entreat him not to peal us. 
Old David sent me this peat last week. 
We did not admit so bad a plea. 
Our mealman pleaded fourteen or fifteen weeks. 
We owe our ruin to our long pleading. 
I did not prevent him from reading it. 
Did I not bid thee put away this ream? 
If thou hast not planted thou wilt not reap. 
The rear stopt short not far from that forest. 
We rear hemp and grain, and we bring up a lad. 
Am I to punish him for reaving so trifling a thing f 
I hear that they intend to repeal it. 
I did not prevent them from repeating it. 
Our ship put to sea this morning a week. 
Art not thou goieg to see that sea born plant? 



OF TEACHING. 167 

We see three or four men in a seabeat seabost. 
He showed us a living seadog and a fat seahog. 
Thou mayest be a seaman without having seen a 

seaport. 
iNIust it be red, green, or seagreen ? 
Thou hast seen the seamark, but we did not see it. 
We set sail for the best seaport in old Spain. 
Did not this seashark devour a seamaid? 
I say that I did not see that seal. 
I did not seal them ; for I had mislaid the seal. 
Thou shalt, I repeat it, not see the seam. 
1 did not forbid him seaming it. 
They did not prevent me from searing it. 
Get me a seat that I may sit. 
She lay in a bed, he seated himself near it, but I 

did not stand near him. 
Let it be green or sear, thou shalt not send it to 

them. 
I trow, that she did not see that sheaf. 
Did not she forbid thee shealing them? 
I did not sheer our, sheep, but I am going to get 

them shorn. 
Did not he prevent me from sheathing the sword ? 
He must get me a sheath for this pointed sword. 
Thou wilt find the shearman beneath that shed. 
If thou art afraid to be seen thou must sneak 

away. 
Hast not thou a mind to flog so mean, so low and 

sneaking a varlet? 
Durst so mean a sneakup sneer at us ? 
He speaks best, but I read and sing best. 
Did not I brandish a short sword, and did not he 

brandish a long spear ? 
Did not we forbid our spearmen spearing our foe ? 
Hast not thou found this spearmint in our long 

mead ? 



168 THE METHOD 

Did I not prevent him from stealing a steak? 

If it emits steam, thou wilt see the steam, I trow. 

Did it steam a day or did it steam a week ? 

Did we not see a long streak on the ground floor ? 

Did I not forbid thee stealing that green board ? 

Thou wilt see a strong stream flow along the green- 
ing mead. 

It began to flow at three, but it began to stream at 
four. 

Wilt thou prevent a sun beam from penetrating a 
transparent thing ? 

On the fourth day we began to be sunbeat. 

They say that they did not intend to sv/eal it. 

Thou shalt not send him the green tea he asks for. 

Did not she shed a tear and did it not drop on the 
floor? 

I shot, this morning, a fat teal from that oak. 

Did not they keep a team last year ? 

Did he not see that wild beast with its ten teats ? 

I met but a tearful widow in the street. 

Thou hast no ground for treating them in this way. 

A roasted eel must be a treat for him. 

Did they not detest so bad a treatment ? 

I say that I did not tweak him so hard. 

We had sold our beef but we had veal left. 

He went away without unreaving it. 

Did not he forbid thee unsealing it? 

I did not prevent them from unseaming it. 

Must it be soft or hard, weak or strong ? 

Thou esteemest him to be a weakling. 

i say that our weal did not depend on thee. 

She insists on weaning this weak infant. 

Did not she put the weeping weanling to bed. 

He did not forbid us weaving green plush. 

Had he a mind to treat us with this unmeaning 
trash ? 



OF TEACIUNG. 169 

He did not say yea nor did he say nay. 
Did not this fat sheep yean last week a year. 
We keep but a yeanling and three sheep. 
I esteem this barking dog to be a yearling. 
They did not mind the zeal we shewed for them. 
Did not I prevent him from inseaming its left leg ? 
It must be neap at about four in the morning. 
Did he not forbid us nealing it? 
We must keep it near at hand. 
Did he noL shew thee that neat and elegant thing ? 
Wilt thou swop that redstreak for a nut ? 
Did he not forbid us revealing it? 

I = E. 

Did I not shew thee the abdominal parts ? 

Wilt not thou desist from abominating them ? 

I had not ground for treating that abstinent man 
in so splendid a way. 

Our admiral asks for eight sloops and four boats. 

The king did not bestow the admiralship upon him; 

Did I not fear long ago this advenient mishap? 

They go on in a slow and agminal step. 

A sea dog, alias a shark, swam up the bay. 

AVe agree to stnd them the aliments they ask for. 

Our agreement about its alimental elements did 
not last long. 

He sent me an alkali for an alkahest. 

Thou wilt not prevent its alkalizating three ele- 
ments at least. 

You must bidhim throw that amatorial trash away. 

Wilt thou prevent him from breathing the ambient 
fluid. 

Did I not forbid him ampliating them. 

Thou must prevent him from reviving that aniented 
plan. 

I esteem a dog to be the most faithful animal. 

p 



17^ TilE METHOD 

I durst not send them away without animating 
them. 

Thou hast to deal with an animated Irishman, 

They esteem this drug to be antidotal. 

Did not that animal ask for an antimonial anvil ? 

Did she not play on this Aonian harp ? 

Set this anti-venereal drug apart. 

i did not forbid him admiring so elegant an aporia,. 

If he prevents thee from arbitrating it> thou must 
prevent him from antagonizing. 

Thbu must not mind that armorial trash. 

I did not forbid thee aspirating this sound. 

Did not he get the bastinado for having forsworn 
liimseli? 

She did not prevent me from bastinading him. 

Thou hast forgot that it must be bifidated. 

A bountiful God bestowed this great gift on man- 
kind. 

He sent me this brambling from Brazil. 

Am I not to punish them for this delirium ? 

Thou must, punish him for having denigrated us. 

May we not agree about a thing without denomi- 
nating it ? 

May not I keep it without dilaniating it ? 

Did not I inform thee that we go on dilapidating r 

If thou dilatest it thou wilt spoil it. 

Thou must get it diluted with sweet milk. 

The diluvian ark stopt on yon elevated peak. 

Thou mayest diminish it without degrading it. 

Did not the great king bestow this diploma on me ? 

It must be divided into three parts at least. 

Thou mayest strip them if they divest thefe. 

This, then, thou denominatest the dividend. 

I did not prevent thee from divining it. 

I did not ask forthe fiftieth but for the eightieth 
part* 



OF TEACHING. ITl 

This emigrant must be an eminent artist. 

Did I not shew thee that ensiform leaf? 

Bast thou forgot so elegant iin epigram. 

lam going to read this elegantepithalamium to thee. 

Art not thou going to send him this epithem? 

Thou must not bestow so low an epithet upon them^ 

They went away without estimating the land. 

We intend to set out on the last estival day. 

I did not forbid him evestigating it. 

It must be evident to them that I durst n:ot avoid it« 

They did not prevent me from evitating it. 

Did I not forbid him fatigating our fat steed? 

I did not prevent them from holding that festivaL. 

He sent it to me without having foliated it. 

Pray put this folio on the lowest shelf. 

He durst not grasp this fulminant gun. 

I did not prevent him from fuhiiinating us. 

I did not forbid thee fustigating that varlet. 

Though I am no habitant thou hast no ground for 

insulting me. 
If thou art not gifted with great hardiment thoix 

must avoid this hardship. 
iVIay our lord or our holidam help thee. 
I told him that it must be straight and horizontal. 
Did not our host beat and defeat the imperialists f 
Did not she put the imperial infant to bed ? 
She did not prevent me from impropriating it. 
At least they seem to be inanimated. 
We sold our Indian indigo this day a week. 
The thing must be inevident, indeed ! 
He did not forbid me denominating him an infidel.. 
Hast thou not prevented me from inlapidating it ? 
Our intestinal pain lasted three or four weeks. 
Thou hast intimated this event to us ten weeks ago* 
He went away without intimidating our antagonists. 
We intend to prevent him from invalidating this 

deed. 



17'2 THE METHO» 

They yet go on sifting and investigating It. 

Must it be labial or labiodental ? 

He went to bed without delineating this labiated 
leaf. 

Did not a thin lamina remain in the bowl ? 

Did not he send thee that laminated thing? 

II thou laniatest it, thou wilt spoil it. 

They went away without lapidating the saint. 

I admonish thee not to trust that artful lapidist. 

May we not feel latent or jatitant heat ? 

We lavish latria upon our saints. 

Did not he ask for a lenient drug and did not I' 
send it to him ? 

I told him that it must be roundish or lentifornr. 

They did not pay me for levigating it. 

The litigants did not adopt this agreement. 

Hast not thou paid him for litigating for thee ? 

Did not that mad brain read this elegant madrigali 

This grandee played with that eminent lapidist. 

It must be manifest to thee that 1 did not mani,- 
fest it. 

Did not our raving king publish a long manifesto ? 

Last year we sold manifold lots to them. 

This manikin durst insult so great a man. 

Send this blowing marigold to our grandam. 

Last week we transplanted our mariets. 

He left us without blaming our marital deportment. 

Did they not display or reveal our mariiimai 
strength ? 

Thou hast forgot the most material point. 

Ten materialists held a meeting at our hotel. 

Hast thou not prevented him from materializing 
our soul ? 

They separated without investigating this matri- 
monial point. 

Did not our mediating help a great deal ? 

Hast not thou meditated this point for three wrecks 



OF TEACIUKG. ±7Q 

I fear that tKou wilt not hit upon a fit medium, 

I did not prevent him from meliorating it. 

Did not I bid thee hand me that memorial ? 

The memorialists did not forbid me memorizing 
the memorial. 

They intend to avoid this menial toil. 

Our methodists shun the militant toil. 

Thou shalt not send that minikin milksop. 

Thou shalt be paid for having mitigated its pain. 

Did he not spurn at this mitigant medium. 

Thou hast seen the mufti without speaking to him. 

This musketeer navigated the roaring main. 

Thou wilt be paid for not obviating this fatal evento 

I did not forbid thee tasting this olio. 

It must not be omniform but it must be multiform^^ 

So weak and doltish a plan ominatedits own ruin.- 

Did not our opium put him to rest for three or four 
weeks ? 

Did not he read this drama with an oratoriaL 
strength ? 

Did he hear so elegant an oratorio without admi- 
ring it ? 

May be he forgot to read this ordinal. 

This origan must be an oriental plant. 

Did he not eat an oviform plum ? 

This opium prevented its palpitating. 

I esteem that palisado to be fifteen or at least four^ 
teen feet long. 

They did not forget to punish us for not palisading 
our fort. 

Last week we sold our patrimonial mead and barn«r 

I weet that they spurn and sneer at our pedigreCo 

Am I to finish this pediment this week ? 

Must this penitent return to the meeting? 

This penman left out the penultima. 

It may be malignant without being pestilent^ 

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174 THE METHOD 

They teld me that they found no petrolium on It. 

Did I not prevent thee from hiring so pitiful a 
penman ? 

Our harvest men say that an abundant and plenti- 
ful harvest repaid our toil. 

He durst not depart on that pluvial day. 

Art thou relating an antidiluvian or a postdiluvian 
event ? 

They say that God has predestinated us. 

If thou prevailest thou wilt be prevalent, but if 
thou predominatestj thou wilt be predominant. 

Did not he seem to fear this prevenient step ? 

This prodigal grandee did not throw away the 
sum that he bestowed upon that spendthrift. 

The provident artist did not forbid me promulga- 
ting this fatal event. 

Did not the prurient maid long for this gleeful 
event ? 

Blind men feel/without seeing, the radiant sun f 
or, at least, its burning heat. 

He did not hurt himself, if he did not break the" 
radius. 

Did he not long and ask for ratafia. 

That eminent king did not mind trifling regalia. 

They did not pay me for this retiform skin. 

Did not the dog gulp the meat without rumina- 
ting it ? 

I did not forbid thee salivating them. 

I told him to shew thee a salival gland. 

Thou v/ilt get no salmagundi though thou mayest 
ask for it. 

They pretend to be great and sapient men. 

They wish me to keep the sediment for the satrap. 

It must not be fluid but it must be semifluid. 

I shewed thee a semilunar leaf, hast not thou seen it? * 

I fear thou wilt nbt long keep this senatorial seat* 



of TEACHING. 175 

They separated without agreeing about the seminal 
elements. 

They say that he inhabits that unventilated apart- 
ment. 

They durst not upbraid our votarists with so mean 
a sentiment. 

We esteem or deem its brain to be its sensorium. 

The sentinel let us go on without firing at us. 

This did not prevent it from septentrionating. 

The shining sun prevents us from seeing Sirius. 

They went away without spoliating our votarists. 

They need not wait for this stabiliment. 

Did not I forbid thee sublimating it ? 

He did not read our testimonial, but I am going to 
read it. 

Did not our despot forbid us transmigrating. 

We met with a transmigrant gang near that forest. 

The Lord did not forbid us forgiving a venial sin. 

Did not they prevent me from ventilating it ? 

Y= E. 

They went away so abruptly that I did not see 

them. 
I wish that they may avoid so great an absurdity. 
He absurdly insisted upon our going away. 
He abundantly provided us with beer and mead. 
Our antagonists hardly admit its admirability. 
Our admiral granted me a sword for behaving so 

admirably. 
The admiralty did not admit our plea. 
She played admirably and she sang adorably. 
We had not the least ground for upbraiding him 

with advoutry. 
I wish that the agony may not last long. 
Agreeably to this sapient behest we prevented him 

from disturbing thee. 



±T6 THE METHOB 

I deem that they long but for its alimentary parts,- 

Hast thou forgot both altimetr}/ and trigonometry ? 

Thou wilt astonish them if thou speakest so 
amazedly. 

Did not our fleeting steed run amazingly fast ? 

Hast thou not a mind to let him go amblingly ^ 

We did not prevent them from returning to the 
ambrv. 

I did not intend to depaint its amazing amenity. 

Did not she treat us both kindly and amiably ? 

They may depend upon our lasting amity ? 

Did not the king forbid us promulgating an am- 
nesty ? 

They provided us amply with garments and ali- 
ments. 

We owe our finest arts to analysis. 

I did not study anatomy with him in Italy. 

Our anility 4)re vents us from speaking loud and fast. 

At last they agreed about its animality. 

This mishap we owe to our doltish animosity. 

We must prevent him from remarking this triflings 
anomaly. 

We must depend upon our anteriority. 

Did not I upbraid them with this antinomy? 

I say that he did not remark our antipathy.^ 

Our apathy prevents us from disturbing them.^ 

The apiary must not be far from that lofty oak. 

I fear that thou wilt not return aptly. 

They did not bestow upon it an arbitrary meaning. 

We found an arborary leaf on the melting snow. 

I plainly see that they ardently long for our amity. 

We intend to freight that empty argosy. 

Our aridity must be owing to our apathy. 

Did not they defeat our best army last year ? 

A fatal arteriotomj prevents me from meeting 



OF TEACHING. 1^7 

Bid he not study astronomy with us ? 

I v/ent away without having seen an atomy. 

Thou may est push it but thou wilt not push it 

availably. 
Did not she play with so smug a baby ? 
He laments that thou hast so badly hurt him. 
'1 he}^ told me that she did not return into thfe 

balneary. 
Did not he lend thee this bandy ? 
Did not I see them bandy it about. 
Did not I forbid thee shewing them its bandy leg. 
Hast thou not forgot our barbarity yet ? 
Thou must not forget pounding its barky parts. 
Did I not bid thee throw this barmy beer away ? 
He treated me dastardly, but I repaid him for that 

treatment. 
Hast thou not pointed at that beamy star ? 
So beasdy a treatment befits so brutal a man. 
Let me only transplant this betony. 
She told me that she had not seen that bevy. 
Bigamists admit bigamy to be legal. 
He told me bigly that I must return within three 

weeks. 
You may depend upon it that it must be binary at 

least. 
They did not go a hunting on so bleaky a day. 
If thou trustest blindly thou wilt be deluded. 
We biithly play away our best moments, 
I told him bluntly that he must depart within four 

weeks. 
Wilt not thou show me that blushy leaf. 
They boastingly "pretend that we durst not meet 

them. 
I am not gifted with a great bodily strength. 
Did not he forbid thee anatomizing this animal 

body ? 



*^S THE METHO© 

Am I to rear this plant in this bolary soil ? 

Did not we boldly own our enmity ? 

Hast not thou found this bony bend on the floor? 

Did not he bid thee return to that bosky ground ? 

Did I not forbid thee shewing them its boundary ? 

Thou hast not yet forgot our imperial bounty. 

We found him hid in a braky den. 

We must prevent him from tasting this brandy. 

I did not forbid thee imitating this elegant brevity. 

They sold me this brimstony drug in that shop. 

Thou must not turn the left hand so briskly if thou 
wishest me to see it. 

They sent me this brisdy skin last week. 

Did not I bid thee throw this brushy thing away^ 

Must she not abhor and detest our brutality ? 

We only prevent them from living brutishly. 

I did not forbid them taking avv^ay this bulky 
trash. 

This bumkinly lad must return within three weeks. 

Did not they hang him for burglary ? 

I see that they did not shew thee the burly beast. 

Hast thou got this bad hay from that bushy mead ? 

We sold our bushy land last week a year. 

I see him daily at our hotel in Foitrth-street. 

if thou treatest them so daintily thou wilt spoil 
them. 

Did not Eliza bring thee this dainty? 

They intend to sin damnably, but thou must pre- 
vent them. 

They seem to be very dampy this morning. 

Thou needest not upbraid us with our dastardy. 

Our dastardly admiral durst not sail this morning 
to meet the foe. 

He sold it dearly and we paid dearly for it. 

Bodily debility itiust beget mental debility. 

I did not bid him load this boat so deeplv. 



OF TEACHING. 179 

Am I to punish him for not divining its rapid de- 
flagrability ? 

If he paints him deformedly thou must not pay 
him. 

Its great deformity did not astonish me. 

The bountiful deity did not deign to grant it. 

Did not that event demonstrably prevent our ruin ? 

I told him that he must diminish its density. 

If thou trustest him blindly thou vi^ilt be deplora- 
bly deluded. 

Did he not strongly upbraid us with our depravity ? 

I plainly see that we must submit to our destiny. 

To speak the truth, thou hast treated them detest- 
ably. 

If thou prayest devoutly for it the deity must grant 
it to thee. 

He did not see, I ween, this elegant dialysis. 

They roam about without keeping a diary. 

The grand dignitary forgot to grant thee that living. 

He left us without demonstrating its astonishing 
dilatability. 

We did not intend to treat them so diminishingly. 

We sold our best and finest dimity last week. 

They see but dimJy and feel but weakly. 

Hast thou not seen that plump and sleek maid with 
the dimply skin ? 

They see our disability without deriding us. 

Thou wilt find a great disparity between them. 

Did he not return from our empty dispensary ? 

Our grand dignitary did not study divinity. 

Thou may est swop this doily for that dimity. 

He dotingly waits for the blushing maid. 

Thou shait not devour so doughy an aliment. 

Did the maid put our dozy brats to bed ? 

A painful dropsy keeps the old man in bed. 

Did they bid thee paint it do duskily ? 



180 THE METHOD 

I prevented him from riding out on that dusky 
morning. 

I durst not put it on so dusty a shelf. 

They sent me this ebony from a distant land. 

We abhor ebriety and we detest ebriosity. 

On the eighteenth we lost eighty-eight men. 

Did she not sing and play most elegantly ? 

I fear that we must disagree about its elementarity. 

Thou wilt not prevent me from admiring its ele- 
mentary parts. 

We did not wish him to see this embryo. 

Thisanimalmustbe eminently harmful to mankind. 

We owe our ruin to that fatal empyrosis. 

Did not I forbid thee emptying that bowl. 

Did not our army beat and defeat the enemy last 
year? 

The unfeeling enigmatist did not mind our ardent 
entreaty. 

Perhaps she lost the ring in the entry. 

They envy our weal, but we must not mind this 
envy. 

Did not our drug instantly remedy the most vio- 
lent epilepsy ? 

I see evidently that thou wilt not return to the 
army. 

If I push thee but faintly thou wilt hardly feel it. 

Must not they abhor and detest our fastidiosity ? 

Mortal man, thou must submit to blind fatality. 

We owe lasting fealty to our great king. 

1 am told that they play featly and run nimbly. 

Did our most violent fedary push them so feebly I 

She played elegantly and sang feelingly. 

I plainly see that he feignedly trusts us* 

Did we not at last ov/n our feminality ? 

Did we not treat them with great festivity? 

Fifthly, thou shaft send us fifty pots on the fifteenth. 



OF TEACIIINrr. 181 

It may be he did not see that fdmj web. 

Thou art a filthy and nasty animal indeed. 

We did not shew him our linary.. 

They pretend that it must be a fishy animal. 

They not only must return, but they must return 
fitly. 

Did not the shiny sun melt that flaky snow ? 

It may be burning, I ween, without being flamy. 

Did she not forbid me deriding so flashy a plan ? 

I am told that he did but flatly gainsay thee. 

A body may be fleshly without being flesh}^ 

Hast thou a mind to prevent us from admiring its 
floridit)^ ? 

I ween that the)^ did not remark its fluidity. 

She told me to throw this foamy milk away. 

He fondly went to meet the deluding maid. 

I did not forbid him shaping it forkedly. 

Thou hast, I ween, not seen that forky twig. 

They abhor our apish formality without deriding it. 

They sent me this fragmentary bed last week. 

She did not forbid me forgiving this frailty. 

They roam freakishly and hunt for violets that 
blow fragrantly. 

If thou art a freeman thou must speak freely* 

Did not the wind blow freshly from the east ? 

Thou wilt hardly admit its friability. 

Thou needest not upbraid us with our frivolity. 

We must send them this frisky lad. 

Did not the last week set in frostily ? 

If they boast frothily thou must sneer at the frothy 
boasts. 

He did not prevent thee from admiring and imi- 
tating our frugality. 

Did we not eat frequently on that frosty day ? 

Did the old maid sew this shift so fumblingly ? 

I did not bid him dig up so furzy a spot. 



182 THE METHOD 

Did not I forbid thee eating that fusty meat? 

Thou goest gaily out, but thou wilt not so gaily 
return. 

They may feign gaiety without being gay. 

They gainly sent us this gear last morning. 

I did not prevent thee from hiding its glabrity. 

I gladly adopted so prudent a plan. 

Did not he throw this gleby lump at me ? 

I did not shew thee its gleety leg. 

I deem that he plainly demonstrated its globosity. 

That fatal defeat did not diminish our glory. 

Devout and godly men glory in piety. 

Did not the gouty dogmatist ask for me ? 

I found this grainy body behind our granar}'. 

Did not our old harp sound gratingly ? 

He did not upbraid me with this gravity. 

He entreated me with the utmost gravity to hand 
him the dish with the gravy. 

They greatly esteem our benevolent landlady. 

Did not that greedy hog greedily devour its meal ? 

Our dog retreated, but grimly did he bark at them. 

If he speaks groundedly thou mayest trust him. 

At last she grumly granted our demand. 

The wind prevents our leaving this gulfy land. 

We durst not sail on so gusty and stormy a day. 

But they did not remark our hability. 

He told me that the haily rain did not last long. 

Did not the old gunsmith shut the door handily ? 

They say that thou art a skilful and handy gun- 
smith. 

I haply met him this morning in Fourth-street. 

Did so hardy a seaman fear a gusty tempest? 

She played on the harp, but she had no ear for 
harmony. 

Did she not turn the harpy out into the street? 

They speak harshly, but they mean no harm» 



OF TEACIirNTG. 1S3 

Thou wilt repent and lament so hasty a step* 
I did not so hastily admit its truth* 
We did not start on that hazy morning. 
Must we load this boat with that heapy hay? 
I sold this heathy land to a doltish Irishman. 
They upbraid us with our hebdomadary stay. 
He granted it, but he granted it heedily. 
We did not part M'ith our hereditary land. 
I say that they hold this old hut hereditarily. 
Did the}^ forbid thee imitating our hilarity. 
Our hoary grandam prevented me from going out. 
Thou must keep it holily, until I redemand it. 
The holy man left us without reading the homily. 
Must they not detest our Iiomonymy. 
I bet that thou wilt break this horny hilt. 
Did not I study hbrometry with him ? 
That benevolent lord did not treat us hospitably. 
I told them that they may depend on our hospi- 
tality. 
Did they not seem to fear our hostility ? 
If thou seekest for it so hotly thou wilt not find it. 
I bet that the hurly burly did not finish the deed. 
Thou shalt not shew him that husky thing. 
I did not remark so plain and evident an identity. 
I wish that he may speedily remedy this idiopathy. 
I say that they spent the day idly. 
Did not the Lord our God forbid idolatry ? 
We say that thou hast treated us ignobly. 
They say that he durst not prevent our ignominy* 
If he Insulted thee he did so ignorantly. 
Did thev not inibody our army last v.eek ? 
They durst not depend on our imitabitity* 
Did he not remark its impenetrability i 
This body must be impenetrably hard. 
I am told that thou livest impenitently. 
Did not the Deity punish us for our impiety T 



^^^ THE METliOB 

He left us without demonstrating its imporosity» 

That fort, I ween, must be impregnably strong. 

Its improbability must daily diminish. 

Did he not demean himself v/ith great impropriety ? 

We durst not plead our total inability. 

They probably did not remark its inanity. 

I am told that they study indefatigabh^. 

We must demand indemnity for the past. 

Let us speak independently and v/ithout fear. 

Did it not rain last week indesinently ? 

Thou borest this indignity but thou borest it in- 
dignantly. 

We must indispensibly go and see them. 

Let us not speak so lazily and read so indolently. 

They may, without the least risk;> depend on our 
industry. 

If we speak ineptly thou m.ust not mind our saying. 

May be they did not remark its inevitability. 

Thou wilt inevitably defeat so weak an antagonist. 

Wilt thou not prevent them from promulgating 
our infamy. 

The enemy did not defeat our infantry. 

This infestivity may last three or four weeks. 

They durst not upbraid him with infidelity. 

Its infinity must be demonstrated. 

May be he did not see its informity. 

Our landlord did not treat us inhospitably. 

Hast not thou a mind to upbraid him with inhos- 
pitality ? 

They separated without debating its inimitability. 

They sing and pla)- on the piano inimitably. 

We did not prevent them from divining our inly 
sentiments. 

I wish that so harsh a remedy may speedily dispel 
our inanity. '^■^ 

Thou hast no ground for fearing our insensibility. 



OF TEACHING. 185 

I see that they gain fast, though insensibly, upon us. 
i^id not our inseparability seem to alarm them ? 

I sn T Zf 1 '" ^f f ^"^^^'t ^^it^^^^t IH-i^g inseparabiv. 
1 say that he did not treat us insipidly. 

I did not see but I felt its insipidity, 
rhey need not upbraid me with insobriety. 
He insolently told me that he did not beat thee. 
1 hou mayest depend upon its instability. 
Thou wilt find him if thou seekest him instantly. 
lie must, at least, admit our instrumentality. 
Ihey boast insultingly that they defeated our in- 
lantry. 

I see that thou hast not defended us insurmountably. 
Ih^y may, without the least fear, depend on our 
integrity. 

Thou mayest depend upon it that thou wilt see its 
intensity. 

If thou wishest to study thou must study intently. 
Did not our infantry defend that post with the 

utmost intrepidit}^ 
We must intrepidly meet our boasting antagonist. 
1 wish that they may remedy its invalidity. 
Let me entreat thee to keep it inviolably. 
If he speaks invitingly thou must not trust him. 
He met him, I admit, but I say that he met him 

involuntarily. 

I did not forbid thee forgiving an involuntary 
misdeed. ^ 

Thou wilt not prevent this ivy from mounting 
along that oak. ° 

Thou must not reprimand them so keenly. 

If they speak kindly to thee thou must treat them 
Kindly. 

So mean a varlet durst insult our kingly dignity. 
Thou art a real king if thou behavest kingly. 

<t2 



4S6 ~ THE METHOD 

This lady prevents me from striking thee to the^ 

ground. 
They mean, I ween, to meet our ladyships in the 

suburb. 
Must not the laity pay them dearly for it ? 
I see that thou hast lamentably deluded them. 
Did I not pay my landlady last week ? 
I fear that thou wilt not be lastingly gay. 
Lastly, thou must intently study latinity. 
They lavishl} bestowed the meanest epithets upon 

me. 
We dream our best moments away idly and lazily. 
If thou art slow and lazy, thou wilt hoard no pelf. 
Three leafy oaks stand near four greening plants. 
Nobody durst go on board that leaky ship. 
Thou mayest be a votary to sobriety without living 

so leaniy. 
I see that thou wishest us to admit its legality. 
If thou art a legatary, thou must pay me. 
Thou must not depend on our lenity. 
Did he not reprimand us for our gayety and levity? 
Did not the king intend to levy a strong army ? 
They daily meet in our library. 
I found this lily in yon shadowy glen. 
They say that thou hast insulted our limitary men* 
Thou wilt instantly see them return limpingly. 
We found them both in a lipothymy or fainting fit» 
Tkey daily meet to sing a long litany. 
Without studying lithotomy, thou wilt be but aa 

unskilful lithotomist. 
I ween that he did not see its lividity. 
Wilt thou plant them in this loamy soil? 
I see that they eat, but they seem to eat loatbingly. 
Did he not seem ts> grant it loathly ? 
I intend to speak loftily without provoking thenio 
%4ohy sentiiaents be£t so great a h<prOs 



OF TEACIIIXG. 187 

We longingly wait for so astonishing an event. 
We speak lordly to shew our lordly dignity. 
Repeat it loudly so that they may hear it.' 
They loutishly roam about the suburb. 
They inhabit a lowly hut, without living lowlily. 
Did I prevent thee from gazing at that distant 

luminary? 
He struts about lumpishly loaded with a lumpy 

harp. 
I hardly see that faint lunary beam. 
Did not the lusty lad leap and rear lustily ? 
They madly set sail and went to meet the Danish 

fleet. 
Must they not spurn at our pretended magnanimity? 
They import this mahogany from a distant land. 
They mainly depend on our own magnanimity. 
We intend to prevent so fatal a malady. 
If he did not break this bowl malignantly thou 

must not punish him. 
Thou hast shewn the utmost malignity in hurting 

this man. 
The kind mandarin sent for the desponding man- 
datary. 
I agree wHth thee that thou hast treated them 
manifoldly, but I must say that thou hast not 
treated them kindly. 
If he retreats thou hast manifestly beat and de- 
feated him. 
Hast thou a mind to insult so manly a lad? 
Thou wilt find a marly soil behind yon forest. 
We left that marshy den on our left hand. 
Thou must send them this mealy drug instantly. 
Let us snub and reprimand him for behaving s© 

meanly. 
Did he speak so meltingly without deluding thee I 
He did not remark this elegant metonymy. 



ISS THE METHOD 

She told me mildly that she did not fear me. 

We must submit this milky fluid t(j analysis. 

Thou shalt not long for military glory. 

The ministry durst not gainsay so strong a report. 

The minority must submit to our behests. 

Did she let him run about in the miry street? 

We mistakingly granted our esteem to that miso- 
gam i St. 

They hunt for thee in that misty glen. 

Thou wilt find no misy in that deep pit. 

Did she remark its mobility ^vithout admiring it? 

We boastingly display our own integrity and pub- 
lish our own feats. 

Must not so modish a man demean himself m.o- 
dishly ? 

I sold him a moiety but he did not pay for it. 

Thou wilt not prevent moly from growing in this 
mead. 

Hast thou not felt a momentary longing for it. 

This nonogamist and I disagree about monogamy. 

Thou must strongly feel its monstrosity. 

We must begin to display our morality. 

Did nobody remark iis manifest morbosity ? 

Let us not forget our own mortality. 

They mostly return at about eight in the morning. 

Am I to throw this mothy yarn away ? 

I durst not feed them with this mouldy aliment. 

The huntsman durst not prevent its mounty. 

Must not a modish widow weep and speak mourn- 
mgly? 

This astonishing frenzy lasted about four weeks. 

Did not this multiformity seem to astonish them ? 

I reprimand him for speaking so mumblingly. 

Wilt thou go a riding on so murky a morning, 

I rim told that thej' sold thee ten musky shifts* 

Thou wilt not prevent its tasting mustily. 



OF TEACHING. ISO 

ft must get moist and fetid, mouldy and musty, if 

we shut it up for three weeks. 
They regret, I ween, that I did not hurt myself. 
I fear that thou wilt not find out the nasty slut. 
They speak so nastily that I am afraid to let thee 

go with them. 
Did not a blind destiny ordain our nativity ? 
It they keep a navy they may send forth a fleet. 
I had nearly shot our old hen. 
He speaks neatly, but he speaks without dignity. 
May not a man be needy without living needily ? 
We run nimbly but we swim slowly. 
I intend to weigh its nitry elements. 
Did not the nizy upbraid us v/ith our nobility ? 
I bestowed this meed upon him for behaving so 

nobly. 
Did they disagree about an entity or a non-entity ? 
Thou speakest notably fast, but thou readest re- 
markably slow. 
We intend to nonplus our notary with this enigma. 
Did that notoriety bring no harm upon thee ? 
We durst not prevent this salutary novelty from 

being adopted. 
Did they not, without the least delay, adopt so 

salutary a novelty ? 
I entreat thee to shew m.e that oary leaf. 
Did he not pity our fatal obesity? 
I see that thou planest this board oblongly. 
Did he not avoid volatilizing its oily parts? 
Thou art not the only man they durst not speak to« 
Thou hast not the least ground for lamenting our 

orbhy. 
He ordinarily gets up at' four in the morning. 
We intend to go on in our ordinary way. 
We )'ct disagree about its orientality ? 



"^QO THE METHOD 

They long to be orthoepists without studying 

orthoepy. 
Thou mayest depend upon its palpability. 
Thou hast palpably deluded our mistrustful oi'- 

ganist. 
This panoply did not belong to that hero. 
We mounted pantingly a steep and lofty mount. 
We deem our pantry to be the best apartment to 

keep it in. 
If thou adoptest papistry, thou wilt be denominated 

a papist. 
Did she not voluntarily omit this parenthesis ? 
I did not remark so great a parity between them. 
They went away without agreeing about its par- 

tibility. 
I did not prevent him from analyzing it partly. 
We sent out a strong party to survey the distant 

ground. 
She did not long for our doughy pastry. 
Thou hast forgot to pay me for rounding it so patly. 
Must they not sneer at and detest our pedantry? 
If thou speakest peevishly thou wiltbe denominated 

apeevish man. 
So trifling a penalty did not prevent us from beating 

them soundly. 
Did he not avoid demonstrating its penetrability ? 
Thou speakest penitently without being penitent. 
Did they not mind so pithy a reprimand ? 
Thou must not only snub them but thou must 

reprimand them pithily. 
Did not our pity help them a great deal ? 
He did not remark the planetary orbit. 
Thou must prevent him from taking so plashy a 

road. 
Hast thou plenarily forgot so important a truth ? 



OF TEACHING. IDl 

Did not that plenary defeat ruin our enemy ple- 
narily ? 

We had plenty this day a year. 

I wish that he may remedy our plethory. 

Its plumosity did not long astonish us. 

An animal may be plumy without being plumpy. 

He must admit our plurality to be evident. 

I say that a wild man must detest our poesy. 

We deem it imprudent to study poetry. 

I durst not respond him so pointedly. 

Pray shew me that polary magnet. 

They did not disagree about its polarity. 

They durst not admire our polity. 

He found no poly in our sloping mead. 

Thou mayest see a polygon without naming it. 

I did not prevent him from sending thee the poly- 
hedron. 

Hast thou a mind to rub out so elegant a polygram ? 

Thou hast not the least ground for mistrusting our 
probity. 

Did he not forbid me to shew them this polypus ? 

They deem it imprudent to sneer at our pomposity. 

Did not I forbid thee riding on this wild pony ? 

He may be a polytheist without speaking popishly. 

We miust, I ween, admit its porosity. 

A man may be portly without being bulky. 

I did not shew them this pory skin. 

They did not mind, I ween, its posteriority. 

They wish me to push him potently. 

She left the yard without feeding the poultry. 

She related pratingly a long and insipid story. 

The Deity must punish us for our pravity. 

Did they admit this preliminary to be legal? 

He did not admit our primary sentiments to be 
sound. 

We did not esteeni him primarily. 



193 THE METHOD 

Did he not, at last, admit our priority/ ? 

Thou mavest send him the diploma, but thou must 

send it privi'y. 
He did not long avoid violating our privity. 
We deem it prudent to keep our plan privy. 
We must not depend upon sheer probability. 
Thou hast probably forgot the insipid story. 
They durst not upbraid us with our prodigality. 
Hast thou not a mind to toil profitably ? 
They not only wish me to send it but they wish niG 

to send it promptly. 
I regret that thou hast shown so bad a propensity^ 
We admit that thou art its legal proprietary. 
They may, I ween, stop it with propriety. 
Our prothonotary left the suburb this very morning* 
Did we not providently detain them ? 
I am told that they did not speak provokingly. 
If thou speakest prudently, we must admit thee to 

be a prudent man. 
A pulmonary maladyprevents him from riding out. 
Thou must eat its pulpy part only. 
Did I not forbid thee feeding that pursy animal? 
I am told that thou art a Pythagorean. 
We may see a raiubow on a rainy day. 
We may feel its rapidity, though we may not see it. 
We only esteem it for its rarity. 
He may paint rapidly without painting elegantly. 
Thou must not speak so rashly. 
We must pay for it ratably. 

If he speaks so ravingly, he must be mad, indeed ! 
If I admit its reality I am beat and lost. 
They sneer at thee for speaking so redundantly. 
We sold our ready mead last week. 
We inhabit a reeky apartment in the fourth story. 
Hast thou no regard for our regality ? 
Our three masted ships sail remarkably fast. 



OF TEACHING. 193 

We must prevail upon him to reveal ^o salutary a 
remedy. 

I told him the plain truth repeatedly. 

The enemy defeated our army reportingly. 

In this way thou mayest avoid replevying it. 

He did it, but he did it repugnantly. 

The sun may heat a thing without shining re-- 
splendently. 

They may hunt restrainedly in that forest. 

I had a mind to part with this resty pony. 

Did not the revelry begin this day a week? 

They did not wish for our rivality. 

Wilt thou go a hunting on this hoary morning? 

Hast thou forgot to send him this ropy drug? 

We admit, though repugnantly, its rotundity. 

I told him roundly that thou hast forgotten him. 

Thou must not forget to shew them our ruby. 

Let us go near that rushy meer* 

I found an old rusty sword beneath yon lofty oak« 

We sadly bemoan our hard destiny. 

Thou art, I see, a saint, without living saintly. 

This, I ween, must be a salivary gland. 

May v/e not depend upon our salvability? 

Thou wilt admit its salubrity, if thou feelest it. 

We must avoid that drear and sandy plain. 

Must not they sneer at our pretended sanity? 

If thou feelest its rapidity, wilt thou not admit 
it to be rapid r 

Thou will find a saponary body on the lowest shelfo 

We deem it prudent to shun satiety. 

Let us eat, but let us eat savingly. 

Thou shalt not long withhold our salary. 

Hast thou a mind to soil and spoil this seamy gar- 
ment: 

if they retreat, they only r3treat seemingly. 

Tiiey had a mind to prevent our being sedentary. 

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194 THE METHO© 

Our deportment may be seemly without our speak- 
ing seemly. 

They selfishly avoid speaking the plain truth. 

I see that thou avoidest painting them semblably. 

They went a hunting in yon semilunary glen. 

Thou must prevent our disagreeing about its se- 
minality. 

They intend to found a seminaiy in our suburb. 

Must it be senary or must it be novenary ? 

Pie did not avoid hurting our sensibility. 

Thou mayest see that they grow sensibly. 

May not the mind feel without a sensory ? 

Our sentry ran av/ay without firing at the enemy. 

They seem to depend on our separability. 

It may be septenary or senary. 

We^lost a great deal, but we retain our serenity. 

We must diminish its serosity. 

Our reprimanding him sharply did not avail a fig. 

He did not remark its sheathy form, 

A thing may be sheeny without our esteeming it. 

Did our ship sail on so shelfy a stream without 
stranding ? 

Its shelvy bed prevents our fishing with a net. 

Hast not thou seen its shiny train ? 

They durst not swim in so shoal a sea. 

I say that thou wilt shortly see them. 

They went a hunting in yon shory forest. 

Must not they detest our showy piety? 

If they play silently, thou wilt not hear them. 

Did not she wish me to bespeak a silky veil ? 

I wish to see its similary parts. 

Did not she remark so striking a similarity? 

Thou must speak simply and without art. 

Did he slavishly |idmit so striking an absurdity ? 

Lay thy hand upon this sizy body. 



OF TEACHIXG. 195 

That slanting beam must be at least elglity feet 
long. ^ 

I told him repeatedly to hold it slantly. 

I found this slaty body on yon lofty peak. 

It may be sleek, I ween, without being sleazy. 

If thou readest so sleepily, thou wilt not prevent 
our sleeping. 

If thou art sleepy, let us go to bed and sleep. 

She did not need a parasol on that sleety day. 

I found this slimy animal beneath that leafy shrub. 

He told thee repeatedly to hold it slopingly. 

We read slowly and lazily, but we play fast and 
run nimbly. 

A lad may be smart, without playing smartly. 

I held a smeary body in my left hand. 

He granted it, but he did not grant it smilingly* 

Thou seest that I am a smith without a smithy. 

They forbid me living in so smoky a hut. 

If he speaks testily, thou must not obey him. 

Throw this smouldry body in that old hut. 

He may be a beau without dashing and striding 
so smugly about. 

Did he not remark its snaky form ? 

If thou behavest sneakingly, thou wilt be denomi- 
nated a sneakup. 

They went a hunting on yon snowy plain. 

7'hou admirest our sobriety without imitating it. 

Thou wishest that our sodality may last fourteen 
weeks. 

If we speak softly, thou wilt not hear us. 

He saluted us with the utmost gravity and so- 
lemnity. 

I am no solitary, though I inhabit so solitary a 
spot. 

We agree both about its density and solidity. 

If thou wishest to hold it fast, thou must grasp it 
solidly. 



t^S THE METHOD 

He did not plainly establish its solubility in brandy. 

We durst not treat a king so sordidly. 

If thou hast a mind to beat him, thou must beat 
him soundly. 

The sun breaks forth sparkingly from behind yon 
lofty peak. 

Wilt thou end it speedily or slowly ? 

We sold our speedy greyhound last week. 

I am far from fearing and avoiding this spinosity* 

I abhor and detest so spiny a plan. 

Hast thou a mind to shew them our spinstry ? 

Did not I prevent him from taking yon spiry path? 

I see him run about in that splashy street. 

Did that spleeny dotard treat them so splendidly? 

Did not its spontaneity astonish and nonplus thee ? 

1 found this springy body in yon springy mead. 

We may depend, I ween, on its stability. 

They flow lastingly, but they stream startingly. 

They deal prudently and speak stayedly. 

Has thou a mind to send him this steely spring? 

Wilt thou transform this steepy ground into a 
iftead? 

Did not I forbid thee promulgating its sterility? 

The Spanish king kept and paid a stipendiary 
army. 

Hast not thou a mind to part with this stony land? 

Hast thou a mind to sail on so stormy a sea ? 

He told them a long and trifling story, but I for- 
got it. 

If thou graspest it stoutly, thou wilt not be hurt* 

He did not prevent our investigating it straitly. 

Wilt not thou lend me this streaky plaything ? 

I had no mind to part with that streamy land. 

Stringy plants must grow in that wet ground. 

Did he not forbid thee grasping and holding it 
strongly.. 



OF TEACHING. ±9T 

The uproar did not disturb us in our study. 
We did not plant them in that stumpy ground. 
If thou art a sturdy man, thou must sturdily de- 
fend this post. 
They feel Its sublimity without admiring It. 
Sublunary plants may be seen in this land. 
If thou sendest us a subsidiary army, thou shalt 

get a subsidy. 
Its subtilty prevents us from seeing it. 
Hast not thou found him in a sulky fit ? 
Did he not go a bathing on that sultry day ? 
I sent him sundry plants last week. 
If thou speakest surlily, thou wilt be denominated 

a surly man. 
A body may be sweepy without being bulky. 
Did not the sweet maid sing sweetly and play ad" 

mirably ? 
If thou art sweltry, thou must go and swim iu 

the pond. 
You must run swiftly and return fleetly. 
Thou wilt find three synonyma on this leaf. 
He did not remark this elegant synonymy. 
Thou hast probably forgot to send them the tapes- 
try. 
If they furnish thee tardily with meat, thou must 

pay them tardily. 
He need not upbraid us with our tardity* 
I wish that so tardy a seaman may not tardy our 

sailing. 
Thou must not reprimand them so tartly. 
I agree with thee about its tempestivity. 
The temporalty did not submit to this behest* 
We intend to lay a temporary embargo on our 

ships. 
They intended to dispel its tenebrosity. 
Tenthly, we agree to send thee four oaks* 

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198 THE METHOD 

Thou wilt probably feel its tepidity. 

Testy old men speak testily and reprimand tartly. 

I did not bid thee to plant them so thinly. 

Thou must prevent them from taking so thorny a 

path. 
We intend to stun him with our threnody. 
If thou livest thriftily, thou art a thrifty man, 
I did not prevent him from trading thrivingly. 
Wilt thou depart without giving me thy hand. 
He may be a tidy beau without painting tidily. 
He did not forbid us evaporating its trainy parts* 
Wilt not thou let me read this travesty poem I 
They separated in a pet, without renovating our 

treaty. 
It must be trebly painful to thee, to be treated so 

meanly. 
Throw this trashy drug out at the window. 
We granted them our aid, but we granted it trem- 
blingly. 
Am I not to reprimand him for speaking so tri- 

flingly ? 
She sewed it, but she did not sew it trimly. 
We keep no tripoly in our shop. 
This event must truly astonish them. 
Thou wilt be trusted, if thou art a trusty man. 
Hast thou not sold that tufty thing yet? 
We sold them our turbary last year. 
Thou must prevent them from grazing on, that 

turfy ground. 
We shot a tusky bear and an old stag. 
If thou takest twenty from forty, thou wilt get 

twenty. 
I ran with the utmost rapidity, but I ran vainlyt 
Our antagonists must deter our vain glory. 
Our vanity prevented us from obeying him* 
Did he aot admit its validity I 



«F TEACHING. ±99 

Its vapidity prevents me from parting with it. 

Thou wilt find, I ween, a great variety. 

Did he not feel its fastidity ? 

I vastly detest that vasty animal. 

He reprimanded me vehemently for not having 

sent it to him. 
They must abhor our varletry and venality. 
Did he deem its ventosity to be hurtful? 
I did not find him in the vestry. 
She may be ugly without sewing uglily. 
L id it not rain violently last week? 
We must let them feel our virility. 
Our vitality must -daily diminish. 
Did it not flash vividly ? Yes, it did. 
Its malady must be near its ultimity. 
Did not the sun dispel its umbrosity? 
Thou wilt be unavoidably defeated. 
Thou hast undeniably hurt him. 
If I did harm thee, I most unfeignedly regret it« 
He did not speak unfitly, but inelegantly. 
He may be ungainly without being ungodly. 
Did not the Lord punish him for behaving so un= 

godlily ? 
Did the holy man speak to that unholy being? 
They fear that thou wilt treat them unkindly. 
Thou mayest be kind, but thou must not be un- 

limitedly bountiful. 
He durst not unmask our unmanly deportment. 
Hast thou traded with us profitably or unprofita- 

bly? 
Did we not oft punish that unruly lad. 
Must they not abhor our unseemly deportment ? 
We must refresh and unweary our beasts. 
Thou mayest depend on its speedy volatility. 
May not its volubility astonish an ignorant man? 



2100 THE METHOD 

We did not turn him out^ but he departed volun- 
tarily. 

We granted him our voluntary aid. 

I unfeignedly own that I am its votary. 

He told me upbraidingly that I did not prevent 
them from hurting him. 

May be, thou mistakest vulgarity for urbanity. 

To get him beat, thou hast only to defend him 
weakly. 

A man may weary thee without being weary him* 
self. 

Thou shalt not plant them in that weedy spot. 

We meet weekly, but they meet daily. 

Did he not forbid us holding a weekly meeting ? 

He may speak rapidly without speaking weightily? 

Thou wilt see him brandish a weighty spear with 
the utmost rapidity. 

If thou speakest so wildly, thou art not far from 
raving. 

Our wily enemy did not wilily entrap us. 

May be she did not hear that windy boast. 

I shot this morning a wingy animal from a lofty 
oak. 

We durst not let him depart on so wintry a day. 

They say, that they got this winy drug in our shopr 

I say that I investigated it wistly. 

I repeat it, that I bound it fast with a withy band* 

On the fourth, I ween, we held our yearly meet- 
ing. 

Our yeomanry did not obey the wily despot. 

Did not I bid thee throw this yesty beer out of the 
window ? 

We deem zootomy to be an art and zootomists to 
be artists. 

I found our spleei>y zany in a sulky fit,, 



OF TEACHING. 201 

EI E. 

Did not I forbid thee inveigling them? 

If thou layest hold on a thing, thou seizest it* 

Am I to reprimand him for a legal seizin ? 

IE=E. 

Three men hoisted the body and laid it on a bier. 

If they put thee on a bier, thou wilt not long for 
beer. 

A grenadier must be far from feeling fear. 

Hast thou a mind to insult our belamie ? 

The most violent grief must end at length. 

We must avoid grieving so Godly and benevolent 
a man. 

They told me grievingly that the enemy had de- 
feated our grand army. 

If thou meetest them, thou must put on an intre- 
pid mien. 

The fourth pier must be distant from the fifth at 
least eighty-four feet. 

I see that they spurn at our priestly dignity. 

We may be godly and holy men without being 
priests. 

Though I did so, yet I feel no relief. 

If thou believest him, thou wilt repent it. 

I did not prevent thee from reprieving them. 

He told us a long story, but he told it briefly. 

Thou hast only to read this brief epigram. 

I see that thou askest for a brief j but 1 fear that 
thou wilt not obtain it. 

Our belief rests upon the most solid ground. 

He related a story to us without believing it him- 
s If. 

Thou believest then that I am going to obtain this 

fitrf. 

Did not eighty men remain «n the field? 



s^i 



THE MEIHOD 



^ 



Thou wishest for a field bed without being fieldfed. 
A man may be an admiral without envying a field 

marshal. 
We deem it prudent to flee from so potent a fiend. 
Did not our disbelief astonish the sainted priest ? 
Thou wilt not prevent our disbelieving this story. 
Wilt thou shield us from our fiend without a 

shield ? 
Thou believest then that thou wilt obtain the 

shrievalty ? 
A man may hear a shriek without shrieking him- 
self. 
If thou stealest, thou wilt be denominated a thief. 
If thou thievest, thou wilt be found out. 
Thou mayest obtain it, I ween, without taking it 

thievishly. 
Hast thou trusted a man with so thievish a mien ? 
If thou retrievest it, thou wilt owe it to me. 
Thou wilt find it in the eighteenth tier. 
I say that not believing and unbelieving go hand 

in hand. 
Did he not sharply reprimand us for our unbelief? 
A thing may be bulky and weighty without being 

unwieldy. 
Thou wilt see him wield along and weighty spear? 
A spear may be both weighty and wieldy. 
Must they not^ at last, yield to our entreaty? 

1E = E 

We need no reigning king, but we need a parlia« 

ment? 
The king durst not insult our parliamentary dig* 

nity. 

UY=E. 

Thou art a plaguy lad, if thou teazest us. 
Thou hast to deal with a roguy and wily man. 



(i>r TEACHING. 203 

UI=E. 

Hast thou a mind to detain them so plaguily long. 

EY=E. 

Thou shalt not prevent them from grazing In this 

ley. 
I mislaid my key, hast not thou seen or found it ? 
If thou strikest this key, thou wilt hear a sharp 

sound. 
Hast thou sown barley or hemp in that sloping 

field? 
We must submit this medley to analysis. 
Thou strivest in vain to avoid the motley throng, 
We must hold a parley with our antagonists. 
I sold him a fat turkey for a trifling sum. 
Did not they parley three weeks without forming 

a treaty. 
We must wait till they return from the tobey. 

EO=E. 

They left the land without peopling it. 

We did not forbid them repeopling the suburb. 

We may empty a land without dispeopling it. 

They intend to prevent our grand army from dis- 
peopling the land or from driving away its in- 
habitants. 

AY=E. 

Hast not thou seen him last Sunday a week ? 
We intend to hold a weekly meecing on Friday. 
We deem Saturday to be a s^curnian day for us* 

EG--E. 

I had a mind to impregn it with alura. 



^Q^ THE METHOD 



SECTION IV. 

Including' the irregular representations of the 
sound u. 

oo=u. 

We may keep aloof, without keeping alow or aloft. 

Thou must see, I ween, that they intend to befoot 
thee. 

They intend that they did it on our behoof. 

Most plants bloom or blow in the spring. 

We must prevent him from tnmsplanting that 
bloomy shrub. 

I took this magnum bonum from that booby. 

Thou wilt not book it, I ween, if thou hast no 
book. 

A man may be bookful without being bookish. 

Thou mayest be a bookman without being a bond- 
man. 

We feel a violent wind boom without seeing it. 

Am i to depart without striving to break so weak, 
a boom. 

May not a man be gay without looking boon. 

Thou wilt not obtain the boon thou wishest for. 

A man may demean himself boorishly without be- 
ing a boor. 

He may be a good man without having a boorish 
look. 

We must gram him our boots to boot. 

If I benefit thee, wilt not thou boot me ? 

Wilt not thou waits, until I am booted? 

We must avoid burning this booth. 

Thou hast no ground f<ir believing that I played 
booty. 

If they brood, we must not disturb them. 



OP TEAeH»^^(i, 205 

Hast not thou sold him the last brood ? 

We found but a broody hen in the old barn. 

This brook must be at least four feet deep. 

Did he brook this insult so long without retali- 
ating ? 

Dig up this broom and throw it into that brook. 

Hast not thou a mind to part with this broomy 
mead ? 

Did he sow turnips in that marsh)'- broom land? 

Thou strivest vainly to avoid our doom. 

They had a mind to doom me to sweep the yard. 

She droops, we faint, and thou growest weak. 

The flook must be its weightiest part. 

They say that thou hast not provided them with 
food. 

I did not deem this thin and slimy body to be so 
foodful. 

A man may be a fool without fooling or trifling. 

Thou mayest fool, but thou shalt not fool me. 

If thou art fool born, thou wilt not see the fool- 
trap that they set for thee. 

A man may be bold without being foolhardy. 

Thou art both a foolish and an imprudent man. 

If thou speakest so foolishly, thou wilt not avoid 
being denominated a fool. 

Thou must stand on the left foot only. 

Art not thou on a good footing with him. 

So lazy a footman must soon forget footmanship. 

If thou hast no pony for riding out, thou must 
foot it. 

Did not that footpad need a strong foothold? 

Hast thou a mind to wait for our lazy foot post ? 

If thou takest this footpath, thou wilt not go astray? 

Hast not thou seen a footstep in the burning sand? 

Hast thou no footstool to rest our weary feet upon ? 

Thou hopest in vain to dispel our silent gloom. 

s 



20jS the METIIOD 

May not a man be a fool without having a gloomy 

mien? 
Thou hast not the least ground for glooming. 
May not a thing be good, without being goodly? 
Thou needest no groom if thou keepest no pony. 
Must I not pay him for grooving this thin board ? 
Thou needest a hood, if thou wishest to hood rae, 
A hoof may be horny without being too hard. 
Art thou going to fish without a hook ? 
If thou wishest to hook it, thou must get a strong 

hook. 
Hast thou a mind to hoop them without hoops. 
If thou hearest them hoop, thou mayest begin to 

shout* 
Thou mayest hoot at him, but thou wilt not hoot 

him away. 
We hooted at him, but he did not mind our foolish 

hoot. 
An animal may be a hornfoot, without being 

horned. 
She did not forbid me playing at loo. 
Our loobily landlord forgot waking us at four in 

the morning. 
Pray that seaman to shew thee the loof. 
We may look at a looby without looking for him. 
An intrepid look bespeaks a bold man* 
Our defeated fleet durst not loom for eight weeks. 
Thou wilt iind a loom in yon old booth. 
A man may be a looby without being a loon. 
I did not prevent him from loosing thee. 
If thou hast a round hat, thou needest no loop for 

Did not the monsoon blow three or four weeks ago ? 
Thou seemest to be in a low and gloomy mood this 

morning. 
Our moody landlord durst hardly look at us. 



OF TEACHING. 207 

The moon may set at about three in the morning. 
He probably forgot to show thee the big moon fish. 
Thou shalt get it on a moonshiny day. 
We found a moony standard in yon moorish field. 
They went a hunting in a damp and nasty moor. 
Wilt thou prevent me from mooring this boat? 
I shot an old moor hen in that low moorland. 
Hast thou a mind to plant them in that moory 

grovmd ? 
Art ihou going to burn this mooted shrub ? 
They invited me to moot it on a rainy Sunday. 
They went away without debating the moot point. 
The noonday sun darts its burning ray at us. 
At noon, no waking dog barks at the moon. 
May not a thing be oozy without being slimy ? 
I wish that thou mayest prevent its oozing. 
We subsist but poorly on so poor a soil. 
Wilt thou go to swim in that miry pool? 
Step to the left and thou wilt see its poop. 
They mav say so, but we demand proofs. 
Thou wiit not find them in that dark and gloomy 

nook. 
It may be about a rood distant from that booth. 
Our old barn lost its roof in the last storm. 
Hast thou a mind to roof that hut? 
Behind yon oaks thou wilt find a roofy booth. 
I say that 1 am no rook ; for I did not rook thee. 
Hast not thou slept in the long room ? 
They intend to let me that roomy booth for a year. 
May not a rook sit on its roost without sleeping ? 
Thou believestthen that they roost on that lofty 

tree. 
May not a plant, havingno root, grow in a good soil ? 
We may root them up, v/ithout rooting them out. 
May not a plant be deeply rooted, without being 

rootv ? 



-^a THE METHOIi 

V/lth a strong arm, he shook the snow from the 
bending tree. 

I did not shoot them with this gun. 

Did not the stem thrust forth this blooming shoot? 

It may be a ship, I ween, without being a sloop* 

Hast not thou a mind to plant them in that sooted 
spot ? 

Throw this soot upon that dunghill. 

May not a thing be dusky without being sooty ? 

I fear that thou wilt not get it bound so soon. 

He forsook me without having the least ground 
for forsaking me. 

So sooth a feeling lasted but a moment. 

Forsooth, thou v/ilt soon sooth him in this way. 

The benevolent priest did not forbid them sooth- 
saying. 

I am going to wind this yarn upon a spool. 

If thou hast no spoon-meat to eat, thou needest 
no spoon. 

If thou takest but a spoonful a day, thou wilt soon 
be strong and stout. 

We stood our ground until we beheld our army 
retreat from the plain. 

This stool may be about a foot long. 

We may stoop without yielding and submit with- 
out bending. 

Thou must not let them read and speak stoopingly, 

1 say that our landlady did not swoon so soon. 

May not a swoon, or a fainting fit, last a week ? 

Thou hast not seen him swoop our brooding hen. 

If thou shootest it, thou v/ilt prevent its swoop. 

I took it with me, but I lost it on the road. 

A thing may be an instrument without being a 
tool. 

I found this bulky^tooth in yon sloping field. 

They v/ish me to tooth it speedily. 



OF TEACHING. 209 

Hast thou a mind to prevent them from trooping? 
Did the enemj^ defeat so bold and stormy a troop ? 
Hast thou a mind to woo that blooming maid ? 
We burn no wood in the spring, though we inha- 
bit a wooded hamlet. 
I sold him a good farm with a vast woodland. 
We may hear the woodlarks sing without leaving 

our room, 
I found but three woodmen, shooting wild goats. 
Must the woof be red or must it be green ? 
I must get a woody spoon and three woody forks. 
If he speaks too wooingly, thou must not trust 

him. 
We, too, get our best and finest wool from Merino 

sheep. 
We may retreat without degrading our manhood. 
Thou shalt not insult our priesthood. 
He had the hardihood to insult our priestly dig- 
nity. 
Our widowhood did not prevent them from woo- 
ing us. 

ou = u. 

I see that you deem it prudtnt to mistrust this his- 
torian. 

They printed your book, but they did not bind it. 

Thou shalt not bestow so low an epithet upon this 
youth. 

A man may be playful without being youthful. 

Thou art youthy, at this moment, but if thou livest 
long, thou wilt grow old. 

I trust to heal your wound in three or four weeks. 

If thou shootest him, thou wilt wound him. 

Thou belie vest then that I painted this group. 

I reprimand him for grouping wild goats with- 
sheep. 

s5 



210 THE METHOD 

You must avoid revealing this amour. 
We ask for meat and you bring us soup. 
Thou hast forgot to send us our surtouts. 
She did not prevent you from making a tour. 
They hold a tourney or a tournament to be a mili- 
tary sport, 
I see that thou art weary with tourneying. 
Hast thou not seen that elegant toupet or toupee ? 

O - U. 

Do you not see that ensiform leaf? 

I do not forbid him investigating so material a 

point. 
If thou provest this to be real, thou must be a 

smart lad, indeed. 
He went away without moving them. 
Did we not shoot an old wolf and a wild boar? 
We do not prevent you from disproving them. 
We do not wish to undo or to ruin your ioe. 
Wilt thou reprimand us without reproving them ? 
He reprimanded us for not improving our talents. 
Our removal, I ween, did not prevent him from 

paying you. 
They do not prevent our removing from the sub- 
urb. 
I wish that this ado may soon be at an end, 
A wolf-dog must be a dog, bred between a wolf and 

a dog. 
You may see a wolfish beast without fearing it. 
Wolfsmilk must grow in yon sloping mead. 
They say that, last morning, they shot a wolfish 

animal in that forest. 
So great a poltroon durst not look at us. 
That ponton must be at least eighty-eight feet long. 
Bo we not daily swop our steel for gold ? 



OF TEACHING. 2 J 1 

OUGH-U. 

We do not prevent your going through that marshy 

field. 
A lad may be prudent without being through bred. 
If you begin reading it, you must go through with 

it. 
If you wish to arm us, you must arm us throughly. 
They must be distant four feet throughout. 

WO = u. 

They say that they lost but eighty-two men, 

I told him bluntly that I do not long for a two-fold 

gain. 
A sword may be bulky and unwieldy without being 

two-handed. 

OUT = U. 

Thou takest, I see, a ragout for a Spanish dish. 
He told me himself that he did not feel a gout 
for it. 

ous = u. 

I told him, that he had to pay fourteen sous for it. 

OUL = U. 

I wish that he would bring it this very morning. 
If I am imprudent, you should reprimand me for 
it, 

UI = u. 

This tree must be rooted up for not giving fruit 

this year. 
If thou hearest the least bruit, thou must start from 

this bush. 
You may stop a moment^ without giving up your 

pursuit. 



312 THE METHOD 

UE = U. 

Thou hast not met us this morning, but thou wilt 

rue it. 
He did not remark your rueful mien. 
He intended to stop up this flue, but I prevented 

him. 
I do not say that its tint must be green or blue. 
If you wish to glue it, you must get good glue. 
A story may be true ; but it may, too, be untrue. 

EW=U. 

He held an eminent pos4 in the army, but he threw 

it up in a pet. 
We drew up our army in a vast and sandy plain. 
Did she not detest so lewd and lustful a man ? 
If he speaks lewdly, you must turn him out. 
This tree grew nearly a foot last week. 
Did not this man brew beer liast year ? 
I wish that you would let me eat this brewis. 
I intended to shoot it, but it flew away. 
We met our two antagonists and slew them both. 
I wish that you would shew me that shrew. 
Did you not instantly retort so shrewd a remark ? 
May not a lady speak shrewdly without being a 

shrew ? 
I met nobody but a youthful and shrewish lady. 
Pray, do not speak so shrewishly. 

HEU = U., 
May we not see rheum oozing through a gland ? 
Did it prevent you from lifting your rheumy arm? 



©F TEACmXC. 21> 



SECTION V. 



Including the irregular representations of the 
sound 0, 

AW = 6. 

An av/fal storm shook the trembling forest. 

Hold this pointed awl with your left hand. 

I prevented him from taking the awning from the 

boat. 
Did you not see that trifling and bawbling animal? 
A pimp and a bawd seem to be near akin. 
If they speak bawdily, you must turn them out. 
You must punish them for so bawdy a deportment. 
Thou wilt not prevent him from bawling. 
We saw an old bawsin, but we did not shoot him. 
We brawl very loud, but they do not mind our 

brawl. 
If I am not naked, thou wilt not see my brawn. 
An arm may be fleshy and brawny without being 

too bulky. 
If I had a loaded gun, I would shoot that old daw. 
Did it not begin to dawn at four in the morning? 
Did not the king bid us draw up the army on this 

plain ? 
Draw your sword and defend your own body. 
He went away smilingly without looking at your 

drawing. 
You may speak, I ween, in a slow way, without 

drawling. 
He would fawn upon you, if I did not prevent him. 
Be not so proud for having shot a poor fawn. 
Did not I bid you turiiing out that gawk? 
Thou v/ilt be reprimanded fornot having seen this 

flaw. 



214 THE METHOD 

This sportsman flew a hawk at a trembling lark. 

Am I to hawk your books m the miry streets ? 

Thou wilt find hawkweed in that sloping field. 

You may flaw a bowl, without breaking it. 

I do not prevent your removing this flawy dish. 

I found this haw in the burning sand. 

I did not bid him root up this hawthorn. 

We may speak slowly, without hawing and draw- 

I durst not impawn it with my greedy landlord. 
Thou wilt hear a rook haw in that gloomy forest. 
Do you deem a lampoon to be a lav^ful thing? 
Do we not belong to the lawgiving party ? 
They would prevent you from publishing this law. 
We may see it without leaving this shadowy lawn. 
If an animal should hurt its maw, it would not 

grow very fat. 
Did I not forbid your removing this mawkish 

food? 
Do you not blush for out-fawning him? 
They do not pretend you to be an outlaw. 
Let us outlaAV the rook, wirhout delay. 
We must prevent them from promulgating our 

outlawry. 
Did I not see your hound wildly paw the ground ? 
Did he not prevent your pawning this book ? 
He left us abruptly without restoring our pawn to 

us. 
I saw a prawn and a shrimp in your net. 
Do you not forbid them eating green fruit and raw 

meat? 
Thou wilt be reprimanded for planing it so rawly. 
We must pay him for sawing this board. 
If I had a good saw, I would gladly saw this wood 

for you. 
Thou wilt find sawdust in that deep sawpit. 



OP TEAGHrNG. MSf 

He told me that you would lend me youi* shawm. 

We saw an old sawfish in our bay. 

If they send us spaw, must we not pay for it. 

Did I not see you spawl behind the desk ? 

I told Eliza to brush away this spawl. 

I found this spawn in the deep fishpond behind 

yon forest. 
Do not fish spawn in the spring? 
I' you wish to get straw, you must goto that farm, 
I did not prevent him from sleeping on this strawy 

bed. 
I send you this skin and beg you to taw it. 
I lost a taw in the yard ; did you not find it ? 
We found two tipsy men, sprawling on the wet 

ground. 
Hast not thou worn a tawdry garment last year? 
She had a wild look and a very tawny skin. 
We had a strong thaw three or four weeks ago. 
The sun began to thaw the snow in February. 

AWE = 6. 

Thou believest that we intend striking them with 

awe. 
I did not awe them, nor did they awe me. 
He reprimanded me for having flawed this dish. 
He hawed without drawling, but he hid not drawl 

without hawing. 
They outlawed him about two weeks ago. 
If your hound pawed the g^round, he smelt a rat» 
I do not reprimand you for having sawed this 

board. 
If he tawed this skin for vou, you must pay him 

for tawing it. 
The sun thawed the deep snow in about two weeks* 




216 THE METHOD 

2 

A=0. 

He took a wad and threw it on the floor. 

I found two or three walnuts behind that bush. 

Thou wast wan last week, but thou art not so this 
week. 

Did you not hold a wand in your left hand ? 

I do, indeed, not v/ant to see you in want. 

This wantwit, I ween, wants to thwart our plan. 

Thou mayest go to war, but thou wilt soon repent 

f it. 

We do not intend to war with the Spanish king. 

I say that thou art bound to ward him. 

He told me that your ward inhabits the fourth 
ward. 

Do you not want to see your wardship at an end ? 

Thou must not run so fast on so warm ii day. 

You speak warmly, but you do not insult me. 

You defended him too warmly and they derided 
your warmth. 

You plainly see that I did not warn you too soon. 

He did not mind our warning, but he soon repent- 
ed it. 

I see that he mistook the warp for the woof. 

Look at that beam and thou wilt see that it warps. 

I pretend that I saw a wart on your left hand. 

Did not you shew hina your warty hand ? 

I see that you did not wash your nasty feet. 

Do you feed your hog wkh bran or with wash? 

May not a thing be damp wuhout being washy ? 

I say that a wild bee or a wasp «tung you. 

She must be a waspish slut, inde-^d, if she speaks 
so waspishly. 

Albeit we did not insult thee, yet thou art our foe. 

Do not two or three brooks iiow through that 
swamp ? 



OF TEACHING. 217 

Lend me your swab, that I may swab our floor. 
Do you intend to go through that swampy forest? 
He did not look at it, although I entreated him to 

do so. 
Did not an old swan swim about in the fishpond ? 
I wish that you would hand me that swanskin. 
jVlay we not do it hastily without doing it swaD ? 
I sent you this sward to rub your rusty saw with it. 
Thou wilt find a great swarm in the yard. 
Thou believest then that wasps and hornets do not 

SM'arm. 
May not a thing be tawny or swarth without being 

gloomy ? 
You do not want, I see, to shew me your swarthy 

arm. 
Do you hear the hail and rain swash on the roof? 
Did not your tipsy king drop from the faldstool ? 
Did he not prevent your promulgating this falsity r 
I had almost forgot to read your book. 
I, also, sav/ him sneak away from the play ground. 
I saw a bald old man stand at the door. 
Did not I see you halt on the road ? 
The wily despot intended to inthral mankind. 
If thou makest malt, thou mayest be truly deno- 
minated a maltman. 
A goldsmith may melt gold and platina without 

spalt. 
I told you to brush the malt dust from the malt- 

fioor. 
Do you intend riding out on your palfrey? 
We sold our last Bengal about two weeks ago. 
I admit that you should not regret so paltry a sum. 
You must not fovgtt to reward him for it. 
I would not wait a moment for so paltry a reward. 
You forgot to salt your soup. 

T 



318 ^HE METHOD 

A fish may be very good to eat without being a 

halibut. 
Did not you swop your salt for our saltish fluid? 
I told you that you should go withal. 
Did I not pay the fourth instalment three weeks ago? 
We intend to reinstal him in eight weeks. 

AL = 6. 

You may walk without talking and talk without 
walking. 

If you walk behind a stalking pony^ they say that 
you stalk. 

Must I repeat, that I do not intend to balk you ? 

They say that they found all our men fast asleep. 

You may find a ball, I ween, without going to a 
ball. 

Do not bawl so loud for your paltry ball. 

I did not fear that so great a mishap would befall 
you. 

He told me that they did not fall out. 

May we not spoil a thing without galling it ? 

Hast thou got this gall from an animal body ? 

Thou wilt probably find the king in the great hall. 

You did not prevent that malkin from walking into 
the withdrawing room, 

I told you that he would soon outwalk you. 

If you want to see it, you must lift the pall. 

So galling a defeat did not pall our army. 

If you keep your pony in a stall, it must be stall- 
fed. 

He told me that thou hast not seen a swallow yet. 

I fear that thou wilt not prevent him from swal- 
lowing it. 

If thou hast no small beer^ thou must get brandy. 



OF TEACHING. 2X9 

The tall tree, that you see on yon peak, must be a 

poplar. 
If we thrall thee, thoa Vv'ut be our thrall. 

AU- 6. 
Avaunt, I do not want so nasty a thhig. 
He did not speak audibly ; for we did not hear 

him. 
I do not find fault with your audit. 
If you diminish a thing, you do not augment it. 
May we not find it out without auguring ? 
I see that thou takest an augur for an august man. 
We plant in April? sow in May, and reap in Au- 
gust. 
I plainly see that he wanted to aumail it. 
I did not want to let him see this aurelia. 
A man may be a skilful aurist without being an 

augur. 
Last week a year we saw a splendid Aurora Bore • 

alis. 
If you bring the fruit from the south, it must be an 

austral fruit. 
Did not you say that your authority lasted but 

three weeks - 
Do you intend authorizing him to do so? 
We hold an autopsy to be the best proof. 
If thou likest autumnal fruitj thou rnayest get 

plenty. 
Sb<- told me that she got it for a baubee. 
Did not you punish him for bedaubing this wall? 
Did he not bid me throw this dauby drug out at 

the window I 
I see that thou mistakest daubing for painting, 
I did not prevent your punishing so great a deiault. 
If you defraud a man, may vfe not say that you 

rob him ? 



220 



Tim jHIETHOB 



Thou hast worn epaulets without being a miiitaiy 

hero. 
I would bet that they hid it behind that epauhnent. 
I told you that he would find fault with j-our de- 
portment. 
You need not upbraid us with speaking faultily. 
We must punish thee, if thou art found faulty. 
The blind pagan took Faun for a rural god. 
Do you ween that this Vv^ould prevent them from 

finding out your fraud ? 
I fear that thou hast trusted a fraudful man. 
I do not forbid your gauding at our defeat. 
A garment may be good without being gaudy or 

showy. 
We must haul it through that sloping field 
I do not want you to await the last haul. 
We found no haum in your old barn. 
Oft did we laud that saint, but he did not mind 

our laud. 
You may speak laudably, without behaving laud- 
ably. 
You may fall asleep without taking this laudanum. 
Hast not thou lost it on that sloping laund ? 
We saw a maudlin man behind your old barn. 
I'hou mayest beat and hurt him^ but thou shalt 

not maul him. 
Not far from yon lofty poplar, thou wilt see an old 

mausoleum. 
I wish that you would shew him your nautilus. 
It you should see Paul, would you inform him 

that I wait for him. 
They had hid it in a dark vault ; but, notwithstand- 
ing this, we found it out at last. 
Hast not thou a m.ind to vault our mausoleum ? 
Nobody sa\Y so astonishing a vault without ad- 



miring It. 



OF TEACHING. 321 

I left him vaulting in the old vaulted liall. 

You vaunt your great strength, but we do not mind 
your vaunt. 

If thou speakest vauntingly, thou wilt be denomi- 
nated a vauntful man or a fool. 

AUGH= 6. 

This man taught me to speak, to read and to draw. 

If thou deemest it naught, thou must throw it 
away. 

He did not look sharply, and thus he saw naught. 

For aught I hear, you did not wait for him. 

Thou hast not the least ground for believing me 
to be a naughty and ungodly man. 

I am told that thou speakest and behavest very 
naughtily. 

If thou speakest haughtily, thou wilt be denomi- 
nated a haughty, proud and insolent man, 

OUGH = 6. 

He sought to harm me, though I did not seek to 

hurt him. 
I thought that your antagonist would defeat you. 
Methought that I saw a man etand behind the 

wall. 
If you owe him this sum, you ought to pay him. 
She told me that she bought this bengal in your 

shop. 
I thought that you fed and brought them up. 
At length, I see, thou hast brought about our ruin. 
I fought him last week, but he beat and defeated 

me. 
I besought our admiral not to set sail this week. 
You set at nought the very thing that I esteem 

most. 

T 2 



THE METHOD" 

2 



I thougiit that he v/ould not pay two groats for it. 
He told me broadly that I ought not to wait for you. 
A fishpond may be broad without being deep. 
We did not prohibit him from going abroad. 



SECTION YI. 
Including the irregular representations of the 

2 

sound a. 

AI = A. 

I bought this plaid in your shop^ about four weeks 

ago. 

UA := A. 
The Swedish kingboundhimselftobeourguarantee. 
We intend to guaranty this treaty, at all events. 



SECTION VIT. 



including the irregular representations of the 

3 

sound a. 

AL = A. 

If thou takest a fourth from a half, a fourth must 

be left. 
I did not prohibit your halving the land. 
Did not this palm tree grow two feet and a half 

last year ? 



OF TE ACHES G. 323 

You ought not to palm so foolish a story upon them. 
I thought that this balm would be a good remedy. 
A thing may be soft and soothing without being 
balmy. 

AU=A. 

I saw your aunt hold a small ant in the left hand. 
If thou hauntest bad folks, thou must be a bad 

man. 
He invited me to sleep in the haunted hall. 
I thought that you would draw them askaunt. 
We derided him for flaunting in so foolish away. 
May not a thing be flaunt without being foolish? 
Did you not see the blooming maid go into the 

laundry ? 
Thou wilt find it a hard thing to daunt so intrepid 

a man. 
Your speaking so boldly and undauntedly bespeaks 

a bold and undaunted mind. 
He may be thin, lean and gaunt, without living 

leanly or gauntly. 
You durst not throw your gauntlet on the floor. 
If you want to wash your shift you must go to the 

laundry. 
This empty maund may weigh about half a pound. 
I hear with the utmost grief that thou blamest me 

for having taunted so naughty a man. 
Thou speakest very tauntingly, but thou wilt soon 

repent it. 
You taunt us, for aught we see, but we do not 

mind your taunt. 

EA = A. 

I wish that you would not sit on the hearth. 
You may feel your heart beat, though you do not 
see it. 



224b THE METHOD 

If you do not mind our grief, you must be a hard- 
hearted man. 

You sleep soundly, for aught I hear, and eat hear- 
tily. 

I did not eat so hearty a meal for three weeks past. 

UA = A. 

You must not only guard it, but you must also de- 
fend it. 

If they owe your guardian this sum, they ought to 
pay him. 

I thought your guardianship had ended in August. 

We left the port and put t© sea, without seeing 
your guard ships. 



SECTION VIII. 



Comprehending the Irregularities of the sound ^* 



2 



AI = E. 

If the said man said so, it must be true. 

Your guardian saiththat we ought not to pay them. 

We may hear a thing agam and again without be- 
lieving it. 

We should guard against grief and fear. 

Do you intend to maintain this post against your 
enemy ? 

You must prevent this airling from taking an airing 
with your aunt. 

You may air a r^om, I ween, without having an 
air pump. 



OF TEACHING . 225 

Do 5-011 feel the air rush through this airshaft ? 
Durst this airy, vain and trifling lad insult that 

fair and blooming maid ? 
If you want to see the dairy maid, you must go to 

the dairy. 
This event augments our grief without making us 

despair. 
Your speaking so despairingly begot our own des- 
pair. 
Thou wilt return from the fair without a fairing. 
The naughty fairy did not fairly deal witK you. 
Hast thou a mind to let its hair grow ? 
We bought this wild and hairy beast from your 

aunt. 
Wilt thou maintain that they did not impair our 

land ? 
The intrepid laird durst not go near its lair. 
I had a pair, not long ago^, but I sold them to your 

aunt. 
Hast thou not a mind to repair this old hut ? 
Hast thou not seen the blooming pair smilingly 

repair to the inviting iawn. 

EI = E. 

I would not sv/op this nonpareil for your walnut* 
I say that their defeat would not diminish their 
glory- 

HEI = E. 

We did not prevent you from naming and making 
him your heir. 

EB=E. 

Do you ween that I am going to pay your debts ? 
Thou believest them to be indebted to me for their 

prosperity. 



226 THE METHOD 

He ought not? 1 repeat it again and again, toindebt 
himself. 

A = E. 

Thou wast not bound, I ween, to trust so wary a 

man. 
I did not prevent you from varying it. 
In this way thou v/ilt soon find out its area. 
You may get through it without baring your feet. 
He may be a bold and daring man without daring 

thee. 
I did not forbid you paring this nail. 
I see that he mistook a raree show for a rarity. 
Thou sparest him, though he did not treat thee 

with pity. 
Thou mayest be a sea-faring man without being a 

good seaman. 
Thou hast seen many men j but hast thou seen any 

good men ? 

EA= E. 

Did you not see three mtn v/alk abreast in the 
road ? 

Three ships sail ahea.d and three abreast. 

Hast thou seen him already, or art thou going to 
see him ? 

Would you not beg him to bespeak a bedstead for 
me ? 

We do not behead a man for stealing, but we hang 
him. 

We may bespawl, bespeak, bespot and bespread a 
thing. 

Hhst thou a mind to- bestead that thief? 

Wr had bread, "Vieat, tea and fruit for our break- 
fast. 



OF TEACHING. 227 

Its breadth must be at least forty-eight feet and a 
half. 

Do you not breakfast at eight in the morning? 

A pointed sword may go through your breast with- 
out hurting your heart. 

This breasthook must be at least twenty-eight feet 
long. 

May you not swim without keeping your breath > 

Did not eighty-eight men remain dead on the field? 

If thou hatest us deadly, thou art our deadly foe ? 

I am not deaf, but I do not want to hear you. 

If you fear death, you must not go to war. 

He may be a deathsman without being a hangman. 

This day a year, we had a dreadful day indeed ! 

I wish you would lean your head to the left. 

May not a man lead an army through a forest with- 
out heading it? 

I lost a green headband in the yard ; did you not 
find it? 

Our seamen saw a headland at four in the morning. 

A man may be headlong without diving lieadlong 
into a pond. 

Did not you yield the headship to so prudent and 
great a man ? 

The tipsy groom threw the headstall into a nook. 

So headstrong a man ought not to head our army. 

I would not deal with so rash, hasty and heady a 
man. 

I told you that you would ruin your health at last. 

A man may inhabit a healthful spot without being 
healthy. 

If thou llvest healthily, thou needest not long for 
health. 

A man may walk heavily, without speaking hea- 
vily. 

It must be a hard thing to lift so heavy a lump. 



328 THE :^IETHOD 

He must be a foolish man, if he did not swop lead 
for gold. 

He leant against that lofty oak weeping and groan- 
ing aloud. 

Do we not get all our best hay from that long 
meadow ? 

I did not say so, but I meant to say so. 

Hast thou read this book, or wilt thou read it ? 

I readily agree v/ith you that I am a weak, and oft 
a foolish man. 

I am ready to go with you to the haunted hall. 

A king may be without a realm and a realm may 
be v/ithout a king. 

We may spread a thing without spoiling it. 

I thought it would be best to put this in its stead. 

May not a man speak steadfastly, without being- 
steadfast? 

I wish that you would hold your tool steadily. 

If you find a steady and prudent man, you may send 
him to me. 

,We punish men for stealth and theft, but we do 
not punish them for swearing. 

A deed may be stealthy without being unlawful. 

On a hot day a man may sweat without toiling. 

We do not oft see sweat on a bleak day. 

I wish that you would wash your sweaty body. 

Yo'jr aunt bought this green thread in our shop. 

She told me repeatedly that she would not thread 
it. 

A man m.ay be threatful without being hurtful. 

We threated him repeatedly, but he did not mind 
our threats. 

I did not intend to tread on your gouty foot. 

We did not prevent you from saving vour v/ealth. 

May not a v/eai^hy man be a great fool ? 



OF TEACHING. 223 



IE = E. 



I am ready to depart with you and your friend. 
You ought not to grant your friendship too readily. 
Hast thou ah*eady forgot our friendly warning ? 

UE = E. 

Your guests do not seem to relish your roast meat. 



SECTION IX. 



including the irregular representations of the 

sound i. 



Ai = i. 

Our toil and travail did not avail us the least thing. 

Did not we travail many a day without hoping any 
reward ? 

I thought that plantain would graw in a hot land 
only. 

Thou believest that oaks do not grow on so lofty 
a mountain. 

If you want to see mountain plants you must re- 
pair to a mountain. 

If thou livest on a mountain, thou art a moun- 
taineer. 

I thought that you had a fountain, or, at least, a 
spring, in your yard. 

2 

EI = I. 

I am told that thou grievest for so trifling a for- 
feit. 

IT 



230 THE METHOB 

We maintain that we did not forfeit any thing. 
He thought that so trifling a surfeit would not 

ruin your health. 
He wanted to surfeit me, but I defeated so naughty 

a wish. 

EIG = I. 

We ought to be on our guard against this foreign 
foe» 

IE =i. 

I thought that you had studied law with him. 
He envied me ; though I did not envy him. 
He wanted to insult me, but I only pitied hime 

UI = I. 

I built a small hut, and he burnt it in a mad fit. 
This building must be at least forty-eight feet long 

and twenty-four feet broad. 
I thought that so naughty a lad would only glory 
f^ in guilt. 

I am told that they did not find him guilty. 
I bought it for a guinea, but I sold it for two and 

s. half. 

y ==i. 

Thou wilt find a deep pond in a small glyn. 

You hymning your saints without adoring your 

God. 
I thought that so trifling a mishap would not hyp 

him. 
You may see a great many meh without seeing a 

myriad 
So plain a thing did not want your mysterizing it. 
Ignorant meia hold many a thing to be a mystery. 



OF TEACHING. 231 

A very small man may be denominated a pigmy 

or a dwarf. 
Thou hast naught to fear from that pygmean breed. 
I see that you mistook a pyramid for a polygon. 
A spot may be shady without being sylvan. 
I see that thou likest symbolizing any thing. 
He did not forbid us sympathizing with you, 

though he did not grant aid or help to us. 
Your sympathy did not avail us any thing. 
Thou hopest in vain for our syndrome. 
I do not forbid your admiring synthesis, though it 

would be best for you to adopt analysis. 
Thou mayest form a system, but thou shalt not 

impel us to adopt it. 
I plainly see that he mistook a tympanum for a 

tymbal. 
We must find out a remedy for your tympany. 

E = I. 

[f I had only two rivets, I Vv'-ould rivet it solidly. 

I hold a helmet to be a small helm. 

I invited your friend to travel with, me, but he 

would not. 
Di d you not pay him half a guinea for a panel. 
I bought this Irish linen from your aunt. 

O = i. 

I met three women in the street, talking aloud. 



332 THE METHOD 



SECTION X. 

Comprehending the irregular representations of 
the sound u. 

O =U. 

Your wealthy friend sold me this money bag last 

Monday a week. 
A monied or a wealthy man may be a very igno- 
rant and foolish man. 
We do not want a shovel, but we want a shovel 

board. 
We got an oven built for baking bread in it. 
If thou livest slovenly, thou wilt be denominated 

a sloven. 
We esteem your wit, but v/e abhor your slovenry. 
I am told that thou dealest with, and livest amongst 

bad folks. 
If thou takest a bombard for a great gun, thou art 

near the truth. 
A ship may be blown up without being bombarded. 
Did not, a mad dog run through our borough, 

last Monday, without biting any body \ 
She doth not seem to be smit with him. 
Dost thou intend to stay two or three v/eeks in our 

borough? 
I told him to get a dozen or two for me. 
May not a lion or a wolf outrun an unwieldly 

dromedary? 
Thou art not very bold, if thou darest not front 

so weak an enemy. 
He durst not remain in the front, and so he went 

to the rear. ^"^ 
I told him to wait for me in the front room. 



OF TEACllINC. 2o5 

Do you want bread and honey for your breakfast, 
i thought that he would return within three months 

but I begin to fear that I mistook. 
We invited you to our monthly meeting, but you 

did not deign to repair to it. 
Did not your eldest son play a solo on the violin. 
I did not say that it weighed a ton, but I said that 

it held a ton. 
We do not prevent you from proving your son-ship. 
I wish that you would keep your word. 
He wanted me to word it ; but I told him that I 

would not do it. 
You must be very unskilful, if you do not tho- 
roughly foil him. 
You seldom see a thorough sped thief hung. 
I wish that you would do your own work. 
If thou workest hard and steadily, thou wilt finlsli 

it within three months. 
We durst not punish him for working on a work- 
ing day. 
A good and steady workman would do it in two 

weeks. 
If thou lovest money and wealth, thou wilt not 

seek for glory. 
He would not hurt a worm, living In the dust. 
If you work slowly and privily, may we not say 

that ¥ou worm ? 
We do not envy you for your workmanship. 
A thing may be workmanly and a man may be skilful. 
If thou hirest workmen, thou must also pay them. 
Nobody wants to depart this world, though all 

must depart it. 
A mortal, set upon profit, may be said to be a 

worldling. 
If thou art bent upon this world, we may say that 

thou art a worldly man. 

U2 



23* THE METHOD 

I see that you want to show us sweet wormwood. 

Wood may be wormy without being wormwood. 

I wish that your worship would speak the naked 
truth. 

You worship the sun, but we bask in it. 

You may worship your God without being wor- 
shipful. 

I fear that thou hast not seen the worst yet. 

The best men do seldom worst the worst men, 

I thought that you had not transplanted your wort 
yet. 

He may be a very good worthy man, without be- 
ing worth a >roat. 

I did not prevent you from shoving your old leaky 
boat. 

If you do not want to reward him worthily, do not 
reward him at all. 

A man may be very wealthy without being un- 
worthy. 

It ought not to astonish you, to hear that so mean 
and unworthy a man treated us so unworthily. 

If you hold our method for good, you ought to 
adopt it. 

A king may be without a kingdom and a kingdom 
may be v/lthout a king. 

I trust that so proud and bold an amazon would 
not obey a timid king. 

A man may go a fishing without seeing any tur- 
bots. 

I wish you would repeat the last period but two. 

The last platoon ought to turn on the left pivot. 

I would, without fail, pistol him, if I had a loaded 
pistol. 

He wants to work a pump without a piston. 

If you do not re^it our penalty, you do not par* 
don us. 



OF TEACmNG. 235 

I ask your pardon, I did not mean to tread on your 
foot. 

They fought and bled to establish and to maintain 
their freedom. 

If thou likest honied bread, thou must not repent 
spending money for it. 

If you want to hit it, you must not throw at ran- 
dom. 

Your abandonment did not astonish your friend. 

We ought to abandon a land, held to be good for 
nothing. 

If thou walkest so slowly, thou wilt not see Tren- 
ton this morning. 

I wish that you would transplant this milkwort. 

E = U. 

I saw her behind that bush, but she did not see me. 

I wish to see either her or her aunt. 

I neither saw your son nor your daughter at the 

ball. 
Our baker must be either a fool or a thief or both 

together. 
His sister lost a garter in the yard, did you not 

find it ? 
I want to speak neither to your father nor to your 

mother. 
Do you intend to barter your silver for our gold- 
You did not administer a groat to your son. 
She treats her admirer very kindly, if thou takest 

his word for it. 
If you admonish us, you may be said to be our 

admonisher. 
I thought that wealthy silversmith to be your 

adorer. 
I overtook your adorer after sunset. 



236 THE METHOD 

I never did hear an uglier proverb than this. 

Thou hast no ground for dreading so weak and 
slothful an adversary. 

I wish that you would advert to our workmanship. 

I pray to God that so great an adversity may ne- 
ver befal you. 

We sold our aftermath to your eldest brother. 

I am to meet your father this afternoon at the 
lov/er tavern. 

Your prudent afterthoughts avail us nothing. 

Perform your task and you may play afterward. 

I ought to punish you and your kind aider. 

Did this leaf drop from a hazel or from an alder r 

I thought that an aldern bov/ would be good for 
nothing. 

Our gouty alderman departed this world yesterday 
afternoon. 

We do not find the least fault with your alderman- 
ly deportment. 

May not a man be alert wkhout being prudent I 

I thought that your brother would turn out a very 
kind almoner. 

Your plan being good for nothing, nay, being even 
hurtful, you ought to alter it without delay. 

We found gold alternating with silver and lead. 

We do not want any further proof for establishing 
their alternity. 

On a spot, not very far from the river, we found 
amber and flint. 

I wish that you would melt this ambergris for me. 

If you need money, you must part with your am- 
bler. 

Thou hast a very bad memory for an amplifier. 

A hunted stag may break an antler against a tree*, 

You ought to perform a bad deed neither apertly 
nor privily. 



OF TEACHING. 337 

If thou goest into the armory, thou wilt find the 

armorer in it. 
I see that you mistook a vein for an artery. 
I left him hvmting for an asker, or a small lizard 

living in the water. 
A man with an asper temper ought not to shun 

an asper road. 
Every body must abhor and detest your asperity. 
I want to prevent you from aspersing your friend. 
I saw, but a moment ago, our midshipman astern. 
Never did a peril, let it be ever so great, astert 

our hero. 
An astronomer looks at a moving star to find out 

its bulk. 
I see no great harm in keeping them asunder. 
A man may be an augur without either having or 

wanting an auger. 
They say that you did aver it ; but I want to see 

your averment. 
He animadverted with great severity upon this 

fatal war. 
Thou strivest in vain to avert the impending evil. 
Away with this balderdash ; we do not want it. 
The timid balker hid himself in the balneary. 
Do you permit this bantling to banter you in this 

way? 
The baptist shut up the banterer in the baptistery. 
The barber left the room without shaving the bar- 
barian. 
If thou makest a bargain with me, thou art said to 
be the bargainer and I am said to be the bar- 
gainee. 
If thou takest the bark from a tree, thou mayest 

be said to be a barker. 
I intend to suspend this barometer in our great 
hall. 



238 THE METHOD 

The tipsey baron threw the beaker against the wall. 

Did you not foolishly barter away your barony? 

A baronet ought to be denominated a barterer, if 
he hath to do with bartery. 

A baron may be baser and viler than a bashaw. 

If you keep a bear, you must also keep a bearherd* 

I did not forbid the bearer informing your lord- 
ship, that I am bed rid. 

At last that dreadful beater got beat himself, and 
nobody pitied him. 

A hat may be very good and elegant without being 
a beaver. 

A man may be a good bedmaker without sleeping 
in a good bed. 

She told rae weeping and groaning that thou art a 
bedswerver. 

If you behold a thing, may we not term you a be- 
holder? 

I found the old belfounder sleeping in the belfry. 

You glory in being a true believer and so do I, 

Our big belwether swam over a deep stream. 

Did you ever see a gay or a playful bemoaner? 

Do not let him bemonster the finest thing in the 
v/orld. 

Thou strivest in vain to bend this rod w^ithout a 
bender. 

I hunted for bertram in your meadov/, but I did 
not find any. 

If thou bespeakest a thing, thou mayest be said to 
be a bespeaker. 

Every body ought to abhor and to detest a be- 
traver. 

I sought to prevent her from bewildering herself. 

Our bookbinder, far irom being a bigot, detests 
bigotry an (^bigoted men« 



OP TEACHING. 239 

If thou blamest every body, thou wilt be denomi- 
nated a blamer. 

A man may be a blazer without understanding 
blazonry. 

Had you not last week a blister on your left foot ? 

You want to blister me, but I do not want you to 
do so. 

I do not find fault with your blundering, though I 
animadvert upon your blunder. 

I told the blunderhead that he would spoil it. 

A great blunderer ought not to upbraid other folks 
with blundering. 

Do you Jiear the storm roar and bluster ? 

Thou makest a great bluster about nothing. 

Do not you want your boarder to help you ? 

May not a man be a boaster without being a blus- 
terer ? 

I wish you would set that empty boiler on the 
hearth. 

A man may be bolder than another without being- 
older. 

If I had a bolster I would gladly bolster your head. 

May not meal be separated from bran without a 
bolter. 

Every land hath a border, and if thou livest on the 
border, thou art said to be a borderer. 

They say that thou art the best bowler in this bo- 
rough. 

Thou makest a very strong bow for so weak a 
bowyer. 

You wish to be thought braver than me, show 
them your bravery. 

So boastful a brawler ought not to shun a brawl. 

A man may want a brayer without being a printer. 

A violent breaker would soon upset so small a boat. 



S40 THE METHOD 

A hen may be a good breeder, without being very 

fat. 
I would not be a brewer for any thing in the world. 

Inform your master that we detest bribery and ab- 
hor a briber. 

I wish your father would root out that brier. 

A booted man should not avoid walking in a 
briery path. 

This pond must be at least twenty feet broader 
than that. 

I wish your skilful sister would broider this gar- 
ment for me. 

A man may be a broker without being a thief. 

You prefer this broidery, but I prefer that. 

We neither fear you nor your brotherhood. 

You ought to entertain no other but brotherly sen- 
timents for your brother. 

If you paint with a brush, we may term you a 
brusher. 

Thou art the most skilful builder in our kingdom. 

You glory in emptying a bumper, but I do not 
envy your glory. 

Let us go and see our old gouty burgomaster. 

Go to our bookbinder and beg him to lend me a 
burnisher. 

Your butler treats your other servants with great 
severitv. 

Do you intend to betroth your eldest daughter to 
so pitiful a dauber ? 

Thou dost not remember that thou wast dealer af- 
ter me. 

If thou debasest any thing, thou wilt be denomi- 
nated a debaser. 

They say that thou art the most skilful debater in 
our borough. 

This pit must be far deeper than that. 



OP TEACH1N(>. 241 

You ought to detest so malignant a defamer. 
You ought not to defend so unblushing a defaulter. 
We had a skilful defender, but it did not avail us 
any thing. 

Let us defer our intended walk until four in the 

afternoon. 
Thou art a bold defier, indeed; but thou hast to 

deal with a bold antagonist. 
Hast thou a mind to uphold so mean a de filer? 
A man may be a skilful definer without being a 

lawyer. 
Every defrauder ought not to be hung, but he 

ought to be prevented from defrauding worthy 

and trustful men. 
I would rather be a dehorter than a defrayer. 
You do not wish, I trust, to be held for a delayer. 
A violent fear prevents us from deliberating. 
Our shoemaker sold me this leather for a pound 

and a half. 

If thou leavest or forsakest me, I may term thee 

a leaver or forsaker. 
Hast thou a mind to turn money-lender ? 
Thou takest or rather mistakest every hawk for a 

lentner. 
In order that thou mayest lift so heavy a weight, 

thou must get a very strong lever. 
I shot a poor leveret, at four in the morning, but 

I did not find it. 
You may be a very liberal man, for aught 1 wot 

but you did not shew any liberality to us. 
Your father went away without liberating us. 
May not a thing be hmber without being pliant ? 
A bad limner may envy a good painter without 
hurting him. 

Did so foolish a lisper pretend to stop your mouth ? 

w 



24>2 THE METHOD 

Your brother thought, I did not understand its 
literal meaning. 

Many a literary hero thought fit to nonplus him- 
self with its literality. 

They say that a man may be a good liver without 
having a sound liver. 

You may be a livery man without having ever 
worn a livery. 

If thou lookest upon a thing loathingly, we may 
term thee a loather. 

I paid twenty-seven groats and a half for this lean 
lobster. 

May we not term you a loiterer, if you loiter away 
your best moments ? 

If you want to be a looker-on, you must pay ten 
groats. 

You lost your lorimer and I found it on the road. 

If you want me to hear you, you must speak loud- 
er. 

Your lover related a long story without believing 
it himself. 

The peak, we stood on, must be a good deal lower 
than that. 

I told you, long ago, that you ought to lower it. 

I shot the hindermost and your brother wounded 
the lowermost. 

If thou art a fat and bulky man, moving heavily 
along, thou dost not walk, but thou dost lumber. 

I did not pay for the lumber that I bought yester- 
day. 

A man may be a lurker without being a thief. 

I am not her maintainer; but I am her ardent lover. 

Let us devoutly worship our bountiful Maker. 

If thou repliest malapertly, thou art a malapert 
lad. % 

A lady may be malapert without being malevolent. 



OF TEACHING. 243 

A malster wants a good malt floor and a brewer 
wants good malt. 

You dread a maneater and I dread a manslayer. 

We do not hang a man for manslaughter. 

Thou takest every baboon for a mantiger. 

If thou rovest about for plunder, thou art a ma- 
rauder. 

If you put a mark upon any thing, may we not 
term you a marker ? 

I hunted for a marshelder in that swampy ground^ 
but I did not find any. 

If you revel in a mask, we may term you a masker. 

If thou art thy own master, thou hast a very foolish 
master. 

If thou hopest to master him, thou hopest a very 
foolish thing. 

If thou workest masterly, thou art a skilful work- 
man. 

Thou wast our master formerly, but thy master- 
dom did not last long. 

I never pretended to be a masterly workman. 

I see that you want to let us feel your mastership. 

Our mastery must be evident to every body. 

If thou art a tender mother, thou hast a maternal 
heart. 

You may do this without degrading your mater- 
nity. 

A man may be lean and meager without starving. 

Thou wilt find a limpid stream meandering through 
the forest. 

A man may be a melter without having ever melt- 
ed either gold or lead. 

You got shot in your left superior member. 

An unskilful mender may be a very bad improver. 

That foreigner told us that he had seen a mermaid 
not far from Dover. 



Q.. 



** THE METHOD 

Thou takest or rather mistakest every hawk for a 
merlin. 

We intend leaving our farm after midwinter. 

Our milker told me that we must get another milk- 
pail. 

Do you prefer a spawner to a milter ? 

This body must belong to the mineral kingdom. 

We sent a minister to Sweden and another to Spain. 

Thou art fit for being a minter j but thou art unfit 
for being a mintmaster. 

We intend punishing the misdoer, if we find him 
out. 

An unbeliever ought not to rail at a misbeliever. 

You say that you infer it from our doing j but I 
say that you misinfer it. 

May you not misinterpret a thing you do not tho- 
roughly understand ? 

May the Lord deliver us from this misleader. 

If thou mislikest a person or a thing, thou art a 
misliker. 

I thought that you would found your plea on this 
misnomer. 

So orderly a man ought hot to upbraid us with 
misorder. 

If thou misspendest our money thou art a mis- 
snender. 

We may not only remember, but we may also mis- 
remember a thing. 

Do you intend to temper or to mistemper this 
steel? 

If you term your parson a godly, sober and holy 
man, you misterm him thoroughly. 

Speak plainly and openly if you intend to prevent 
all misunderstanding. 

You thought that'you understood him ; but I plain* 
ly saw that you misunderstood him. 



OP TEACHING. 245 

If thou moderatest a meeting, thou art a modera- 
tor. 
Thou likest to read modern books and so do I. 
You ought not to publish this book without mo- 
dernizing it. 
If thou wantest to be hated, thou hast only to turn 

out molester. 
If you do not want to deliver it to your brother, 

you may deliver it to your sister. 
Do you not wish that I should deliver you from 

your malady ? 
Your own interest ought to impel you to reward 

your deliv^erer. 
An eminent orator ought not to find fault with 

your elegant delivery. 
An impostor, a deluder and a beguiler, seem to be 

near akin. 
Thou art a bold denier, though not a bold deman*- 

der. 
If thou departest silver from gold, thou mayest be 

denominated a departer. 
You ought to treat so worthy a defender with the 

utmost lenity. 
A mourner ought not to rail at a deplorer. 
You ought to guard your daughter against that 

noted depraver. 
A man may be a detainer without having a de= 

tainder. 
He departed this world without determining any 

thing. 
An intruder may soon meet with a detester. 
If you eat a great deal you may be said to be a 

devourer. 
The diameter ought to be fourteen feet and a half 

long. 
This napkin must be broader than that diaper. 

w 2 



246 THE METHOD 

If they diaper it elegantly, thou must reward them 
nobly. 

Our blue-dyer bought this paltry hovel from your 
grandfather. 

A body may be a diluter without being a dilator. 

Your worship ought not to depart without disper- 
sing the mob. 

A dispenser may be wanted ; a dispeopler ought 
to be detested, and a disperser may be hurtful. 

If thou art not guilty, thou hast no ground for 
dreading a disprover. 

A vi'olent distemper prevented me from reading 
your work sooner. 

You ought not to permit grief to distemper your 
mind. 

We must look out for a good and bold diver. 

Thou wilt soon find out a great and striking diver- 
sity between them. 

May not an animated play be a good diverter. 

I wish you would divert your brother from this 
foolish plan. 

A man may find this out without being a diviner. 

A man may be a great talker, v/ithout being a 
great doer. 

You seem to be an eminent dogmatizer but a very 
bad demonstrator. 

We do not want a doorkeeper for our paltry hovel. 

Hast thou not seen our old doter this afternoon? 

Hast not thou a brother that wants to be a draper? 

Did you ever see a bust with so elegant a drapery? 

If thou leavest the room, do not forget to shut that 
drawer. 

Thou mistakest, if thou takest me for a dreader. 

An idler ought never to rail at a dreamer. 

May not a moist or wet body be a good drier? 



0F TEACHING. 2*7 

If you find a heedful and sober driver, I beg you 

to send him to me without delay. 
I bought this morning a fat heifer from a drover. 
I upbraid thee with vulgarity for denominating this 

man a drugster. 
If you dread the dysentery, you ought not to eat 

any pork. 
Thou art too eager, if thou wishest too ardently 

for a thing. 
We hunt eagerly for a thing, and we look sharp at 

a thing. 
I intend to sail for London three or four weeks 

after Easter. 
I prefer the eastern to the western parts. 
If we had an easterly wind we should soon be in 

Norfolk. 
May not a man be frugal without hating a great 

eater ? 
Every priest ought to be an edifier. 
I told our negro to root out the elder in our sIopli:j^ 

meadow. 
An elderly lady ought not to be seen at a ball. 
He did not pay the least regard to our seniority or 

eldership. 
If you do not understand embalming this dead 

body, you must send it to a skilful embalmer^ 
Would you not embroider this red shawl for your 

sister ? 
You need not send for the embroiderer j for he 

steps through the yard. 
If you want to polish steel you must get emery. 
I wish your sister would finish her embroidery 

this afternoon. 
A wealthy man may impoverish himself^ but not 

a poor man. 



24 § THE METHOD 

If you bold war for an impoverisher you ought to 
avoid it. 

If you do not pay, your endorser must pay me. 

I wish you would prevent him from enerving 
himself. 

I am thoroughly bent on going to law with our en- 
graver. 

Every body ought to detest an enslaver. 

Perhaps you forgot entering it on ^^-our books. 

I entertain a great esteem for your father. 

Hast thou a mind to be our entertainer this after- 
noon ? 

I am your esteemer, if you merit esteem. 

You bring into peril your temporal weal without 
promoting your eternal weal. 

Ether must boil a good deal sooner than water. 

If you find an evergreen, be so kind and bring it 
to me. 

Am I everlastingly to bear with your insults ? 

A man may be an evil doer without everting any 
thing. 

Thou hopest in vain to reform an old evilworker. 

If thou dost not speak the truth, thou art a fabler. 

It would be fair on your part not to uphold him 
at all. 

He may be guilty without being a falsifier. 

Did not every body remark your faltering. 

In order to be a good farmer you ought to mind 
nothing but your farm. 

You see farther than I, but I speak louder than you. 

I did not forbid any body farthering your plan. 

A man maybe a great faster without being a saint. 

Nobody wanted to father so ungodly a book. 

Thou hast no ground for hoping fatherly help. 

Thou hast to deal with the meanest fawner in ouf- 
borough. 



©F TEACHING. 249 

A very wealthy man may be a great fcaster with- 
out growing poor. 
I would not sleep on a soft feather-bed for any 
thing. 

We do not intend to tar and feather, but to pump 

him. 
I shot a feathery and wounded a hairy animal. 

I want a skilful feather driver; but he must be sober 
and steady. 

A man may be a good federalist, without reading 
or taking a federal paper. 

A man may be a keen feeder without being a keeA 
feeler. 

Every body may see that thou art a very unskilful 
feigner. 

Your father sold me this fender for a guinea and 
a half. 

This must began to ferment yesterday morning. 

I found no fern in that forest, though I saw a great 
many other plants. 

Our soil wants nothing to farther its fertility. 

A farmer may water a bad soil without fertilizing 
it. 

A fervent devotee and a bigot seem to be near 
akin. 

I besought them fervently to desist from their vio- 
lent deed. 

Let a fluid be ever so fervid, I do not dread its 
fervidity. 

A deep wound may hurt you without festering. 

I had a very violent fever two or three weeks ago 

This trifling feveret ought not to prevent you from 
going out. 

Your departed friend had a hot and feverish tem- 
per. 

Your fevery sister wants to see and to speak to yow. 



250 



THE MEl HOD 



If thou likest filberts, speak and thou shalt get 
plenty. 

We want a skilful filer; but he must also be steady 
and sober. 

I order you to filter this fluid instantly, do you un- 
derstand me ? 

Did I not order you to throw this nasty filter away? 

I am the finder, but I do not ask for any reward. 

Men long for glory and women for finery. 

I own a fish pond and a fisherboat, though I am 
but a bad fisher. 

This foolish treaty did not farther our fishery* 

A good fisherman ought to dread neither water 
nor bad weather. 

Thou art no real wit; but only a pitiful flasher. 

I bought this skin from a flayer, for half a guinea. 

Every body ought to shun and detest a fleerer. 

You may run after a flier without overtaking him. 

Your brother may be the best flinger in our bo- 
rough for aught I wot. 

He saw me flounder ; but he would not help me. 

A flounder must be but a poor breakfast for a 
stork. 

Hast thou a mind to fluster us with tea ? 

He must be a fool or a flouter, or both together. 

You had not the least ground for believing me to 
be your foiler. 

If you had no fondling, you would be no fondler. 

We want you neither for our fomenter nor for our 
helper. 

You ought not to punish so heavily a sheer foolery. 

The greatest forbearer must get mad at length. 

A kind forester guided us through the wild forest. 

I bought this hay frc^m your former tenant. 

I grant that I did not esteem him formerly. 



OF TEACHING. 251 

It would be best for you to forget your unkind 
forsaker. 

Every forswearer ought to be hung. 

A man may be a good fortifier without being a 
great forwarner. 

I do not intend to foster your intended revolt. 

Your foster brother bought the painting you ask 
for. 

You ought not to insult your kind fosterdam. 

I thought your foster father had taught you read- 
ing and drawing. 

Do not you want me for your fosterer ? 

Your foster mother sleeps on a soft feather bed in 
the nursery. 

Did your foster son set out this morning for Bos- 
ton ? 

A man may understand founding, without being a 
lounder. 

In this way you may prevent your ship from foun- 
dering. 

Do not rail at this law ; I am its framer. 

You departed without giving me your fraternal 
hug. 

I say that you do not belong to our fraternity. 

I never had to deal with a greater freebooter. 

A man may be a very good and sober man without 
being a freeholder. 

Did you not order that the freighter should pay 
for it. 

If thou art a frisker we ought not to trust thee. 

Your lady did not order me to send for a frizler. 

That tree must be a good fruit bearer. 

Thou wilt find the fruiterer in the fruitery. 

I would not play with that fumbler for any thing. 

You want me to furbish it, but I am no furbisher. 

I wish you would send for a furbisher. 



252 THE METHOD 

You ought not to go further without speaking t© 

your friend. 
If thou furtherest a riot, thou art a very bad fur- 

therer. 
If thou art gainer he ought to pay thee. 
Thou hast to deal with a harsh and persevering 

gainsayer. 
A man may gambol without being a gambler. 
Your oldest gander flew over the river. 
A foolish gaper stood behind the gap, railing at us. 
I bought this transparent garnet from a gambler. 
I did not forbid you storing up your grain in our 

garner. 
You ought to thrash your barley and garner it. 
I would fain garter it, if you w^ould lend me a 

garter. 
I do not wish you to gather our walnuts. 
Every provident gatherer ought to pray for good 

weather. 
You ought to prevent her from reprobating our 

gaudery. 
If thou lookest intently and eagerly at a thing thou 

art a gazer. 
We ought to establish a gelder in our borough. 
I bought this oats yesterday from a poor gleaner. 
If thou movest swiftly and smoothly along, thou 

art a glider. 
She wtnt away without glomerating her thread. 
Our glue boiler wants a skilful workman and our 

gluer wants a maid servant. 
A good goer may outrun a bad rider. 
If thou hast no gold, thou dost not want a gold- 
beater. 
1 wouid not be a gold finder for any thing in the 

world. 



OF TEACHING. 35S 

You would not glory, I trust, in being thought a 

great gormandizer. 
We want no pilot to steer or govern our ship. 
Do not all federalists abhor our government and 

its form ? 
If you meet with a skilful grafter, you may send 

him to our farm without any delay. 
A man may be a grandfather without having a 

grandson. 
Your grandmother wants to see and to speak to 

your aunt. 
Hand this heavy grater to that strong grasper. 
The graver asks for gravy with the utmost gravity. 
A man may be great and great-hearted without 

being tall. 
I had a grinder drawn yesterday morning. 
A man may be a grower without either growing 

hemp or barley. 
A man may be a grumbler himself without liking 

your grumbling. 
If you run against a strong grunter, he may over« 

turn you. 
Hast thou a mind to be her guarder for ever. 
Did you grant him a guerdon for obeying your 

behests. 
At four in the morning we began rambling about 

in the mountain, but we lost our best guider* 
We took him for a guiler^ but we mistook our man. 
A poor haberdasher may be v/orthier our esteem 

than a wealthy lawyer. 
An intrepid halberdier, wieldmg a weighty hal- 
berd, fought v/ith eight men. 
I see that thou mistakest a halser for a halter. 
If you want to hamper them you must get a ham- 
per. 
We took no money from our hanaper last Sunday^ 

X 



25^ THE METHOD 

You ought to deliver this money to a hander. 

You may draw your hanger to astert them j but I 
forbid you striking them. 

I thought silver to be harder than lead. 

If thou playest on a harp, thou art a harper. 

A man may throw a harpoon without being a har- 
pooner. 

Do not forget to put on your hauberk. 

If thou headest a nail or a pin, thou art a header. 

If thou restorest her health, thou art her healer. 

You want a heaper or a man fit for throwing your 
hay on heaps. 

i thought you to be a haunter in that tavern. 

A man may be a hawker without having ever shot 
a hawk. 

We want no haymaker in November ; but we want 
a thrasher. 

Every hearer ought to pay half a guinea at least* 

This heater must be a good deal heavier than that. 

I sold him a good heeler for twenty-two groats. 

Do not you wish to get him for a helper ? 

If you establish a heraldry, you must keep a he- 
rald. 

A man may keep a herbal, without being a her- 
balist. 

Pray, show this herbelet to a skilful herbarist. 

I want to barter this hcrbid field for a woodland. 

Your brother saw an old wolf rush upon your un- 
guarded herd. 

Good men ought never to herd with bad, ungodly 
folks. 

If you keep a herd you must also keep a herd- 
groom or a herdman. 

I thought that she had forfeited her hereditament. 

Your heresy ought not to prevent him from pro- 
moting you- 



OF TEACHING. 255 

A fatal hernia prevents him from riding out. 

An old hermit showed us the way through the fo- 
rest. 

A heron breakfasts upon fish and a dog upon meat. 

A hibernal day may be milder than an autumnal 
day. 

Thou art hider and I am seeker. 

I am going to hinder you from speaking, without 
preventing you from breathing. 

I wish you would shorten the hinder part a foot 
or two. 

Thou believest that a hinderer must soon meet 
with a hater, and so do J. 

The hindermost man ought to turn to the left. 

An animal you deem good for nothing, you may 
term a hinderling. 

If you want to be hired, you must find a hirer. 

I wish you would step hither, lest you get hurt on 
that spot. 

The hithermost man ought to step to the left. 

I should not wonder that a hiver should get stun go 

Yoxi vv^ant me to sing, though I am rather hoai*ser 
than you. 

A man may be a fool without being a hoarder. 

You may be a holder forth, without being a holder* 

Put your loaded pistol in your holster. 

Our hooper bought a dozen hoops this very morn- 
ing. 

I maintain that a great hoper must be a great 
blunderhead. 

If thou workest in horn thou art a horner. 

D' not you see them hovering around the fort? 

If thou art proud thou wilt meet with a snarer. 

Your brother mav be the best hunter in our be- 
rough without having a hunting horn. 



256 THE METHOD 

I understand that thou wast formerly a very skilful 
hurler. 

A man may be an idler without being a hurter. 

I term you an impertinent booby for your speaking 
so impertinently. 

You may be an importer without being a potent 
implorer. 

A step may be very imprudent without being im- 
proper. 

I say that you yield this important point very im- 
properly. 

You glory very properly in being a skilful im- 
prover. 

An animal may be inert v;ithout being hurtful. 

From this you may properly infer that they did 
not mean to insult you. 

Did you ever hear such an infernal uproar ? 

We do not disagree any further about its inferti- 
tility. 

If thou art blazing thou dost not want an inilamer. 

Do you not admit that your informer may be an 
impostor ? 

Your being an old inhabiter rather augments your 
guilt. 

Thou art not forbid inhersing this dead body. 

I inherited nothing from my grandfather but a 
small farm. 

Your brother told me that 1 am her inheritor. 

Many an old inlander departed this world without 
beholding the sea. 

I wish you would insert it in your own paper. 

This very mishap may be inservient to further our 
plan. 

Did he not vehemently upbraid you with being her 
insnarer. 

I told you already that we do not want any inspires 



OF ^f'EACHmG. Ui}7 

We ought to detest an insuiter and to punish an 
instigator. 

I am going to pat your insuperability to the test. 

You inherited your intemperanient from your fa- 
ther. 

It would be very hard to inter a dead man on board 
a ship. 

I plainly see that you do not understand your own 
interest. 

Thou hast related a ver}^' interesting though not a 
true story. 

You ought to prevent him from interfering with 
your interests. 

We intend to ford the interfluent river, if they do 
not prevent-us. 

You must do it in the interim between Monday 
and Saturday. 

t intend to roast this meat after having interlard- 
ed it. 

I vv^ish you had not forgot interleaving your book. 

I did not forbid you interlining it. 

Thou hast neither ground nor authority for inter- 
loping. 

I wish you would keep a good look out for this 
noted interloper. 

I wish you had seen the interment I saw last week. 

You ought to prevent him from interpolating it. 

I do not dread a foreign foe, but I detest an inter- 
nal enemy. 

You had no authority for interpreting our order 
in this way. 

If thou art an interpolator we ought to punish thee.. 

If they do not understand you, you must seek for 
an interpreter. 

I did not hinder you from interspersing them. 

I wish von would inters ert them without any delap 



i258 THE METHOD 

If you had prevented him from intertwining them 
they would not be intertwisted. 

We met them in the interval between the river and 
the mountain. 

You ought to hinder your testy brother from in- 
tervening. 

Two intervenient weeks may alter her sentiments* 

1 did not prevent him from interweaving blue and 
red yarn. 

He insulted your mother intolerably, but he got a 
beating for it. 

This ought not to be tolerated from so intolerant 
a man. 

I did never hinder your brother from introverting 
it. 

You ought not to trust that wily intruder. 

Ought we not to repel so insolent an invader ? 

We need no law for punishing an inveigier. 

If thou inveniCst an art, thou art its inventor* 

I told your sister to repeat it invertedly. 

I see no great harm in inverting the thing, 

I forgot every thing our kind inviter told me. 

In the spring the weather may be keener than in 
the winter. 

If you hunt for a keepership, you want to be a^ 
keeper. 

Many a poor kern may get shot in along war. 

The kernel dropt on the floor and you look for it 
on the roof. 

If thou findest any kernelwort in this marshy mea- 
dow, bring it to me. 

This kilderkm may hold about twenty-four pints. 

We ought to get a kindler for kindling it, 

A mourner ought never to rail at a lamenter. 

A sailor may be a very good seaman^ without 
failing at a landloper* 



OF TEACHING. 259 

I told liim to hangup the lantern in the entry. 
It mast be very hard to keep rats from a larder. 
If thou hast a larder, thou must keep and pay a 

iarderer. 
I bought fifty-four larks from a larker for half a 

guinea. 
Thou fearest a lasher, though thou likest to lash 

other folks. 
I overtook your brother, though I started a good 

deal later than he did. 
Thou wilt soon find him, if he did not stray from 

the lateral path. 
If you want lather, you must get soap and water 

and beat them together. 
I did not forbid your lathering, but I forbid your 

shaving him. 
I wish you would transplant this lavender after the 

rain. 
A man may wash himself without a laver. 
Do you glory in being a lavisher or a spendthrift? 
A man may be a good lawgiver without making a 

bad law. 
A foolish lawyer ought not to rail at a great law- 
maker. 
A bigrat or, perhaps, another animal, wounded.our 

best layer. 
Dost thou admit every thing our leader told us? 
Thou art a great deal lazier than an old fat dog. 
Thou never hast been in a monastery, but hast thou 

ever seen any ? 
You may send him word that we do not want him 

for a monisher. 
Thou takest him for a monster, but thou art great- 
ly mistaken. 
A poor shoemaker may be a worthier man than 

the most skilful mooter. 



^60 THE BIETHOD 

A man may be a great moralizer without being a 

very moral man. 
You may do this without degrading your mother- 
hood. 
If thou forgivest him, thou wilt show that thou 

hast a motherly heart. 
Botanists term this plant motherwort^ if I am not 

mistaken. 
Ought we not to let the mover speak and defend 

himself ? 
Every moulder, let him be ever so skilful, must 

sooner or later moulder. 
If thou grievest, thou art a mourner> but if thou 

mountest, ihou art a mounter.. 
If thou hast no meadow, thou needest no mower. 
Did I not order you to put the multiplier under 

the dividend? 
I do not wonder at your not understanding that 

mumbler. 
Thou art the only modest mumper in this borough. 
May not a man be a great military hero vvithout 

being a great murderer ? 
If thou dost not murder him, thou wilt not get 

hung for murder. 
A murmurer and a grumbler seem to be very near 

akin, 
I did not muster fifty men three or four weeks ago* 
If I should see the muster master I should not 

fail talking to him about the last muster. 
Thou art not a nailer for nailing a door fast. 
If thou namest a person, thou mayest be taken for 

a namer. 
Thou art a great deal naughtier than thy brother. 
If thou ownest no neat, thou needest no neatherd. 
If thou needest nothing, thou art no needer? but if 

thou wantest every thingj thou art a great need= 

er indeed^ 



OF TEACHING. 261 

Did he not threaten us with burning our nether 

barn ? 
A nobler and worthier man never trod the tented 

field. 
A navigator sailing from Boston to Norfolk wants 

a northerly wind. 
We intend removing to the northern frontier in 

August or September. 
If thou heedest or notest any thing, thou art a 

noter. 
Do they not term November the eleventh month ? 

Yes, they do. 
If you want to wis their number, you must num- 
ber them. 
If thou hast a great many sheep, thou needest a 

numberer to number, and a marker to mark them. 
A man may be a nurser without having ever been 

in a nursery. 
Did not your master punish you for obliterating it. 
If thou obtainest any thing, thou art an obtainer. 
If thou obtemperatest us, thou wilt be nobly re- 

v/arded. 
An obtruder and an intruder seem to be very near 

akin. 
A fendgazer ought not to rail at an ogler. 
If thou makest a good opera, thou shalt be nobly 

rewarded for it. 
I told him that, without the least delay, he ought 

to send for a skilful operator. 
Must not a priest be a bishop in order to be an 

ordainer ? 
I wish your father would order us to return. 
If thou art an orderly man, thou needest no or- 

derer. 
T.ast winter this small stream overflowed our long 

meadow. 



^2 THE METHOD 

I rather fear, thou hast overloaded this boat. 
We do not want your brother to overpay us. 
May not the best overseer oversee many a thing ? 
Your brother hit the mark, but you overshot it. 
If he took it overtly, he did not steal it. 
I found the outer door shut, and thus I went away. 
Your brother ought to let them feel our over- 
weight. 
You pretend to be its lawful owner, without prov- 
ing your ownership. 
Thou takest or rather mistakest every pilgrim for 

a palmer. 
If thou understandest palmistry, thou art a palmis- 

ter. 
If I do not palter, thou hast no ground for terming 

me a palterer. 
You may pamper a man with nuts, meat, or any 

other food. 
So noted a pander ought not to rail at a pimp. 
Would you not pantj if a w :ld panther should run 

after you ': 
If thou hast no pantry and no bread thou needest 

no pantler. 
I thought, that you intended to paper this room. 
I am going to furnish thee with paper, if thou hast 

a pen. 
I thought your eldest brother would go to law with 

the papermaker. 
Do you intend paring that nail without a parer ? 
If thou hast no park, thou needest no parker. 
Thou hast a mind to be a partaker without being 

a payer. 
If thou partest or repartest two men, thou art a 

parter. '* 

I told you already that I want to talk with your 

partner.. 



OF TEACHING. 263 

If you should do this, it would not be degrading 
to your posterity. 

A man may be a father without having a paternal 
heart. 

I told you yesterday, and I repeat it this morning, 
that you ought to send for a paver. 

A pauper ought not to upbraid a poor person with 
poverty. 

A man may be a pawnbroker without being a thief. 

We do not want a paymaster without money. 

We do not want a plunderer, but we want a peeler. 

If thou wantest to be hated, thou hast only to turn 
peeper. 

A potent man may entertain a peremptory wish or 
longing. 

We ought to punish you for your perfidy. 

Dost thou intend perforating this board without a 
perforator. 

I wish you would perform your own part. 

We formerly held your brother for our best per- 
former. 

I order you to stop him, at your peril. 

May not a tender plant perish in a frosty spring ? 

Thou wilt find vervain or peristerion in our mea- 
dow behind the old barn. 

Perhaps a pea perforated your peritoneum. 

If thou art old and bald, thou must wear a warm 
periwig in the winter. 

A perking beau ought not to rail at a perking lady* 

If he wants to build a permanent wall, he must be 
a fool. 

I permit him with all my heart to go and see her. 

You must obtain a permit for vending your brandy. 

If you weigh a thing in your mind? you perpend it. 

If thou perpetratest a wilful murder, thou wilt be 
hung. 



26* tHE ISIETHOD 

I do not forbid your persevering in your worship. 

Do you persist in your sentiments ? Yes, I do. 

Do you term this word a personal or an imper- 
sonal verb ? 

Thou perspirest every day, and so do I. 

A lad may be smart and brisk without being pert. 

I say that they pertain to me and not to your bro- 
ther. 

If you speak pertinently, your saying must be per- 
tinent. 

So trifling a mishap ought not to perturb your 
mind. 

If thou goest through a forest, thou permeatest or 
pervadest it. 

Every body detests you for your perversity. 

If thou pervertest a man, maid, or a thing, thou 
art a perverter. 

Did not Peter bet a piaster with your brother ? 

This pilaster must be about twenty-three feet and a 
half long. 

We intend hiring a piler for piling our wood. 

We do not hang a man for pilfering but we hang 
him for murdering. 

Your being a pilferer yourself, ought to prevent 
your punishing pilfery. 

I found nothing but a withering pimpernel in your 
garden. 

I had to pay the piper, and you had all the fun. 

If thou hast nothing to be plaited, thou needest no 
plaiter. 

After having been a lawyer, silversinith, pawn 
broker and brewer, he at last wants to turn plan- 
ter. 

If you overlay a wall with plaster, they say that 
you plaster it, and term you a plasterer. 



OF TEACHING. 265 

May not a man be a good player without being an 

idler? 
If thou dost not want to fee a pleader, thou must 

not go to law, or plead thyself. 
If you would lend me your gun, I would shoot that 

fat plover. 
In order to look fat, you must wear a plumper in 

your mouth. 
A man may be a plunderer without being a thief. 
We sold all our plunder to an old pawnbroker. 
I permit your plundering him, but I forbid your 

murdering him. 
I agree with you that your brother may be a poet- 
aster without being a fool. 
I bought this pointer from an old sportsman and 

paid a guinea for him. 
I saw that he intended to fling the poker at your 

head. 
A man may understand polishing steel or any 

other metal v^nthout being a polisher. 
Do you intend bartering your pomatum for this 

pomander. 
I am going to ponder over your plan and sift all 

its parts. 
Your brother may feel its ponderosity without be- 
ing a ponderer. 
A man may abhor and detest popery without being 

either a deist or a protestant. 
You may be a great pork eater without having 

ever fed a porker* 
A man may be a very good porter without liking 

or tasting porter. 
Your brother may travel hastily, without being 

taken for a porter. 
Thou hast probably forgot to shut the postern* 



266 THE JklETHOD 

If thou bringest about so great a work, thou wilt 

benefit the latest posterity. 
A man may sit or stand on a post without being a 

postmaster. 
If thou hast no pots, thou needest no pothanger. 
Thou makest a great pother indeed for so trifling 

a fault. 
Dost thou want him to pother us about it every 

day ? 
I told the poulterer that you want a turkey and 

three poults. 
A pear may be a pounder without weighing a 

pound. 
I taught him a very long prayer without having a 

prayer book. 
If thou talkest without weight or meaning thou 

art a prater. 
If thou preparest a breakfast or any other thing 

thou art a preparer. 
If thou wantest to be hated, thou hast only to turn 

preventer. 
A wild beast may be a dreadful preyer without 

being a lion. 
He taught me to read Greek in three months 

without a primer. 
If thou printest books or stampest linen, thou art 

a printer. 
If thou ratest or prizest a thing, thou art a prizer. 
If thou violatest a holy thing, thou profanest it 

and thou art a profaner. 
Do you want to transform that surly prohibiter 

into a hard-hearted punisher ? 
We must repel and defeat the invader or abandon -^ 

all our property to him. 
If thou art a falterer thou art not fit for being a 

prompter. 



OF TEACHING. ^61" 

1 am told your brother did not want to furnish any 

provender. 
Did he want to stop your mouth with this foolish 

proverb ? 
We detest your prudery without liking herproter- 

vity- 
This rafter may be about eighteen feet long. 
Do \'ou want to eat this rasher without bread ? 
Ought not the readership to be bestowed upon the 

best reader? 
If we refer it to thee, thou wilt be a referee. 
Your brother may be a skilful sailor without taking 

your ship for a good sailer. 
Do you intend to establish a saltern on this spot I 
Thou wilt seldom or never see a living serpent in 

the winter. 
Am I not your most obedient servant and most 

faithful friend ? 
With this broad sv;ord he intended to sever your 

head from your body. 
You ought to push it along with your left shoul- 
der. 
May not a man be a priest without being ashriver. 
Every man ought to prefer death to slavery. 
Did you not prevent the enemy from slaughtering 

our van ? 
A slender thread may suspend a heavy weight. 
In a modern army you see neither slinger nor 

bowman. 
You must walk softly in order not to disturb her 

sii:mber. 
I bought it for a pound sterling and sold it for a 

gum: a. 
May not a building be superb without being lofty ? 
If thou art a swearer thou art a fool ; though thou 

mayest be a fool without being a swearer. 



-o5 THE METHOD 

May not a man be a great fool without being a 
versifier? 

oo = u. 

You do not find warm blood in every animal body» 

Ought we not to punish wilful bloodshed with in- 
stant death ? 

You ought not to wonder at our adopting so bloody 
a law. 

Last November v/e had a flood that devastated 
this field. 

ou = u. 

Your brother may be a doubler without having a 
doubloon about him. 

Did I ever forbid you doubling this trifling sum ? 

We intend doubling that promontory this very af- 
ternoon. 

If thou wearest a doublet, thou wilt keep thyself 
doubly warm. 

May not a sound or even a song be analagous 
to another ? 

We do not intend troubling your father any fur- 
ther. 

Many an ordinary event may seem wondrous to 
an ignorant man. 

A man may be valorous without admiring your 
valour. 

Thou likest odorous or odoriferous plants, and so 
do I. 

Good water ought to be without either a good or a 
bad odour, I mean to say that it ought to be 
inodorous. 

If thou spreadest a rumour abroad^ thou art a ru- 
mourer. 

A fluid may be either serous, salivous, or salinous. 

May not a roan speak seriously without having a 
'^^erious look ? 



OF TEiVCfflNG. 2(^9 

If thou art a wary man, thou art timorously px'u- 

dent. 
Old men ought to be serious and young men ought 

to be modtrst. 
If thou wantest a soporiferous drug, thou must 

get opium. 
A somniferous seimon may be very good for fur- 

thtring our slumber. 
This portentous event ought to deter yon frorii 

pursuing your steps. 
I permit you to glory in so glorious a deed. 
A body may be porous without being globous» 
If thou avoidest labour and toil thou art no iabo^ 

rious man. 
I granted ten groats and a half per day to every 

labourer. 
If thou workest industriously thou art an indus* 

trious workman. 
Hast thou a mind to deal with this infamous de» 

frauder ? 
They say that thou art famous for skating ok 

dumps. 
Our troops did not show any superfluous ;irdour» 
That star lost its fulgour about three or four weeks 

ago. 
So great a splendour did not astonish the barbarian. 
I never did harbour any friendship for him in my 

heart. 
Your ship left our harbour on the twentj^-seventhu 
A violent north wind overthrew your arbour yes- 
terday. 
A plant may be ligneous without being arborous. 
Their teeth show that they do not belong to the 

granivorous kind. 
A man may be old without ever having beeci 

amorous^ 

T 9 



370 THE METHOD 

I would not ask for this favour for any thing* in the 

world. 
Do you not intend to punish them for this felo» 

nious deed ? 
I detest your brother for not revealing sooner this 

traitorous plan. 
A man may be barbarous without being a barbarian. 
He told me that you pursued your aim with too 

great a iervour. 
If you want to be taken for a modest man you 

ought neither to brag nor to vapour. 
On a frosty day a dead body emits no fetid vapour. 
The weather may be various without being either 

damp or hot. 
The wind blew variously, but it never blew from 

the north-, 
A fungous body may float in oil or in water. 
If thou behave St piously, thou wilt be taken for a 

pious man. 
You ought not to trust this youngster with so im- 
portant a plan, 
A kingdom may flourish without having a very 

prudent ruler. 
Plants draw their nourishment from the soil they 

stand in. 
i wish you would broil three or four gournets for 

our breakfast. 
If you want to sail from south to north, you want 

a southerly wind. 
If you distil brandy or rum, you distil a very de- 
leterious drug. 
A man may be delirious without hurting any body*. 

A = U. 
If thou art a lier thou dost no harm to any body ; 
but if thou art a lidf thpu wilt harm thyself and 
other folks^ 



or TEACHING, 371 

Men feeling their own dignity ought to abstain 
from beating a woman. 

If thou lovest or likest a woman, thou art no wo- 
man-hater. 

Your eldest daughter ought to pay regard to her 
womanhood. 

I neither do nor ever did envy your womanish ta- 
lents. 

A person may be a woman-hater without slander- 
ing all womankind. 

I bought this vinegar three or four weeks ago 
from your brother. 

I = u. 

If I had a good gun, I would shoot that wild bird. 
You may go a birding without having any bird- 
bolts. 
Did you not pay twenty groats for this fat bir- 

gander ? 
If thou go est every day a birding, thou wilt be 

taken for a birder or a birdman. 
We begin breathing at our birth, and we end 

breathing at our death. 
Ilast thou got any birthwort in thy garden? 
Has thou no other wood than fir for firing? 
I say that you ought to firk him for breaking this 

firkin. 
I did not prevent their trading under this or any 

other firm. 
Thou mayest be a firm and steady man w^ithout 

having a firm step. 
The sun and moon seem to wander or travel along 

in the firmament. 
Thou wilt not deter them from it without speaking 

firmly to them. 
You may be the first man in this land without ms- 

riting our esteem. 



27^ THE METHOD 

I thought at first that your brother wanted to sport 
with us. 

Thou thoughtest it to be a firstling, but thou wast 
mistaken. 

A girl may be a flirt without being a slut. 

You rnay throw any thing without flirting it. 

You forgot both to gird your sword and to put on 
your hat. 

The girder, this floor rests on, may be about 
twenty-two feet long. 

You may hinder a tree from growing without gird- 
ing it. 

Hast not thou a mind to girth this portmanteau. 

Our girdler did not long remain a widower. 

If thou spcakest girlishly, thou wilt be taken for a 
girL 

A man may be infirm without having ever been 
in an infirmary. 

This infirmity lasted about a year and three 
months. 

Would it not irk you to hear this plaint everyday? 

I do not see any ground for your being so mirthful. 

A n3.n puts on a shirt but a girl puts on a shift. 

Sir Peter Parker lost two ships and a great many 
men. 

We lost seventy men in a skirmish with the enemy. 

I told you that you would dirty the skirts 

You seldom see an old surly man smirk. 

You may spirt water or any other fluid without 
taking it first in your mouth 

I do not wish you to stir them up. 

Must I stir it on the third or on the fourth day? 

Thirdly, you mast send a third borough to our ta- 
vern every other day. 

You say that you thirsty from this I infer that yoix 
do not want to eat. 



OF TEACHING. 273 

You need not get any water or milk for me ; I am 

not thirsty. 
This girl may be about thirteen months old. 
Your eldest sister may be about in her thirteenth 

year. 
Did you send him the thirtieth or the thirteenth 

part? 
We lost but thirty-three men in our last skirmish. 
You pretend to be a virtuoso, but you do not shew 

any virtu. 

EA=U. 
If this dearth should last a year it would ruin us. 
If the king wants to dub you an earl, he must be- 
stow an earldom upon you. 
A man may get up early without going to bed 

early. 
Every labourer may earn at least twenty-two groats 

a day. 
If thou makest fun, thou art not in earnest. 
Thou art far from being the most ignorant man on 

earth. 
Thou mayest break an earthen bowl without 

throwing it at the wall. 
An earthworm may be trod upon by any animal 

having feet. 
We do not find any earthnuts in our neighbour- 
hood. 
I saw your sister play on the piano and heard her 

sing. 
Any man may learn a thing without being taught. 
You may be taken for a learned man without 

speaking learnedly 
I never saw a pearl, nor do I wish to see any. 
A girl may be amorous without having pearly lips. 
If thou rehearsest this story every day thou wilt 

never forget it. 



^7^ THE METHOD 

Thou art not invited to its rehearsal, but never 

mind that. 
Thou wiit not prevent them from yearning and 

grieving for it. 

IO=U. 

If thou belongest to our parish, thou art our pa« 

rishioner. 
Hast thou ever seen so foolish a fashion ? 
If thou hast a mind to fashion it thus, thou mayest 

do so, 
A man may eat and talk fashionably without being 

a fool. 
If I say that thou art a fashionist, I only speak rhe 

plain truth. 



SECTION XI. 



Comprehending' the irregular representations of the 

sound i. 



— 1 



You ought to multiply seventy-eight by eighty- 

three. 
I am go-ng to start by and by. 
I fought with him, though I did not defy him. 
A person may be athirst without being dry 
May not I get over this rapid river dr};' shod ? 
He did not liy out though you let fly too soon. 
You seldom see a living fly in the winter. 
If you roast a^^fish in a pan. you fry it. 
Put this fry in that empty trving pan. 
Hast thou ever seen a hydra ? 
If thou likest hydromel^ thou shalt get plenty. 



OF TEACmNG. 2^5 

We bought a hydrometer though we do not under- 
stand any thing about hydrometry. 

We get many a hyemal day in the spring. 

We shot a wolf, a hyena, and a lion, on that lofty 
mountain. 

In a very dry land you may do without a hydro- 
meter. 

Hymen blest them with a son about eleven months 
ago. 
, I see that you mistook a hyberbola for a hyperbole. 

If you dread a hyperborean winter, you must not 
go to the north. ^ 

A leaf may be hyperboliform without being green. 

Your own interest ought to prevent you from lying. 

Thou believest that I feign myopy, but thou art 
mistaken. 
, We must try to prevent him from prying into it. 

I wish you would try to ply my boots. 

I do not understand this foolish ryder, nor you 
neither. 

A young lad may be shy without being ignorant. 

Thou likest to see a blue sky, and so do I. 

Hast thou ever seen or shot a skylark? 

Every body ought to mistrust a meanly artful, 
alias, a sly man. 

You ought to stop that man, for he may be a spy. 

I hinder you neither from paving nor from floor- 
ing your sty. 

If thou stylest him a poltroon, thou art greatly 
mistaken. 

YE = I. 

We did not sow any rye this year. 
Did you not wear a sky-dyed vest last week. 
I prefer rye bread to any other bread ; but you do 
not. 



276 THE METHOD 

IE=I. 

Hast thou not seen him throw that die on the floor ? 
You may die any thing, but any living being must 

die. 
If thou intendest overtaking thy brother, thou 

must hie. 
Hast thou a mind to feed thy magpie with this pie ? 
An old man may get a bald head, and a pony may 

be piebald. 
If thou breakest this tie asunder, thou wilt free 

thyself. 
Do not tie my feet so hard, for you would hurt me. 
Dost thou intend to vie with me in skating ? 
My mother died about thirty-eight or thirty-seven 

months ago. 
The enemy fortified that post, after we had left it. 
Your brother notified it to me yesterday morning. 
Thy brother told me that thou hast vilified my fa- 
ther. 
Thou hast denied thy father and mother. 
Thou hast fought with him, but thou hast not 

defied him. 
You told us that they tied your feet, but you told 

us a lie. 
They say that they lie on the frozen ground and 

they do not lie. 

IGH-=I. 

A person may emit a sigh without grieving at any 

thing, 
I heard your father sigh and I saw your mother 

weep. 
A speaking man without ahead vvould be, indeed, 

a wonderful sight. 
Snow may be a sightly thing to you, but not to her. 



OP TEACHING. 277 

Thou mayest eat thy breakfast, without moving 

either thy right or left foot. 
If I remember rightly, thou wast formerly a sailor 

on board our ship. 
Hast thou not a right to punish that roister ? 
We had a tremendous fight with the enemy, this 

day a year. 
A man may be a great fighter without being val- 
orous. 
Do you intend to fight us on cur ovv'n ground ? 
A slight wound may be very painful. 
If thou art but slightly wounded, thou wilt not die* 
We do not slight your favour, though we do not 

seek It. 
If thou speakest slightingly to a man, thou wilt be 

taken by him for a slighter. 
I wonder that so poor a wight, durst slight your 

friendship. 
We had many a bright morning and fair day in 

February. 
Hast thou seen the rusted, steel brighten under my 

hand. 
I wish you would alight, and spend a day or two 

with us. 
You must endeavour to do aright, and let m.en talk. 
If thou dealest uprightly with every body, thou art 

an upright man. 
A garment may sit tightly upon a person, without 

being neat. 
Thou blamest him rightly, for making it so tight. 
Did not my father order you to tighten it? 
They seem to work at it with might and main. 
Thy' mighty hero hath at length been overthrown* 
You might inform him that my aunt lost her law- 
suit. 
I told him that you intend to deny this favour to 

him, but he took it lightly. 



278 THE METHOD 

This glaring light must hurt your sight. 

Thou hast a light foot but a heavy hand. 

You ought first to enlighten yourself, and then try 
to enlighten mankind. 

He wanted to light us without having a light. 

I heard it thunder^ but I did not see it lighten. 

We must send a lighter to that heavy ship, in or- 
der to unload it. 

Three lightermen went in a heavy boat, to bring 
in that leaking brig. 

A man may be lightfoot, without liking lightfoot. 

A person may be lighthearted, without being light- 
headed. 

Neither thunder nor lightning, did frighten my 
brother. 

A girl or woman may be lightminded without be- 
ing light heartedp 

I did not order you to fry, but to broil the lights. 

This would but augment her fright, 

I do not remember that I ever had so frightful a 
dream. 

Our sentry stood nigh a frozen river. 

My aunt had nighly lost her foot by the frost. 

Did you not hear our dog bark last night. 

A man may be a night brawler, without being a 
night walker. 

If thou dost not hie^ thou wilt be benighted in this 
forest. 

IG = I. 

Your design maybe benign, without being prudent. 

Your father did not speak benignly, though he did 
not look very stern neither. 

If you ratify a thing by hand or seal, you sign it. 

Did you not see the sign hanging at the door. 

If thou bearest an ensign, thou art an ensign bearer^ 

We may do both a good and a bad thing design- 
edly. 



OF TEACHING. ^79 

I did not design this garden for growing oats or 

rye in it. 
If I malign any body, thou hast a right to term me 

a maligner. 
Might not this remedy prevent a malign fever. 

EYE = I. 

You may open your left eye, but keep your right 

eye shut. 
So glaring a light, must spoil your eye sight. 
If you keep your eye on a thing? they say that you 

eye it. 
Thou mistakest an eyelet for an eyelid. 

EIGH = [. 

We posted our troops on two neighbouring heights. 

separated by a small brook. 
I did not order you to heighten this door* 
Would you vilify yourself by so mean a sleight ? 

Ul = I. 

If thou guidest me through this labyrinth, thou 

shalt be rewarded. 
I thought your brother would be a very good 

guider. 
We dread a bad guider but we detest a wily guilen 
Do you not intend beguiling your fleeting moments ? 

UY = I. 

Hast thou a mind to buy this flyblown meat? 
Thou wilt wait so long that at last thou wilt find 
no buyer. 

IC =- I. 

We ought to indict your brother for felony. 
I wish you would send tliis indictment to your 
father. 

IS = I. 

if thou livcst in sin island thou art an islander* 



THE METHOD 



SECTION XJ 



Comprehendhig the irregular representations of the 

sound o'l. 



OY == 

You must endeavour to be a good boy. 

Did you ever try to learn this art in your boyhood ? 

Thou lovest a manly boy, and hatest a boyish man. 

If thou wert a boy, thou mightest speak so boy- 
ishly. 

^^our brother died last Friday, on board our hoy. 

A frost would destroy all our fruit in a night. 

Nothing would hmder the stern destroyer fromt 
destroying our borough. 

If you keep a man at work, you employ him. 

Did not your brother learn to play on the haut- 
boy ? 

Did your employer order you to heighten it ? 

^-^st thou no other employment than this ? 

The emperor did not deign to send an envoy to 
Spain. 

To weigh bread and gold we employ troy weight. 

I found neither savoy nor parsley in your garden. 

You ought to buy a toy for this young girl. 

Hast thou a mind to play and toy with my daugh- 
ter t 

If you want to buy a toyish thing you must go to 
a toyshop. 

OYE. 

Your father employed seven or eight workmen last 

year. 
The frost destroyed all our fruit last night. 
He toyed with your sister, but she did not toy with 

fklTXl, 



Of TEACHING. 281 



SFXTION XIII. 

Comprehending the irregular representations of the 

sound ou. 

OW = OU. 

How many feet high may that oak be ? 

Do you wish to depart now, or do you mtend to 
wait until Friday ? 

If thou avowest thy sentiments freely, thou shall 
be rewarded. 

You ought to bow to that lady. 

Blind women do not mind your low bow. 

Let us enter this bower to avoid the burning suUt 

Your sister burnt her right eye brow. 

If you look sternly at a man, you brow" beat him* 

A man may be in a brown study, without having 
brown hair. 

Thou lovesr this dowdy for her dowser. 

My aunt bought this dowlas at the last fair. 

A man may sleep soundly without lying upon 
down. 

He skated up and down the pond, without tumb- 
ling down. 

Do you not punish her for her downright perfidy? 

I never did empower your brother to do so. 

The first frost destroyed many a flower in our gar- 
den. 

Many plants do not flower in the spring. 

My brother lent thee this flowery poem, but thou 
hast not read it yet. 

A man may be a sportsman, without being a fowler. 

Hast not thou a mind to buy this fat fowl for this 
trifling sum ? 

Did not your frown deter hini from S{)eaking out^ 



fPQ0 



Tim METHOD 



A military hero ought not to frown upon a gown- 
man. 
I told you that yoia would stain and dirty your 

gown. 
Thou bt-havest very badly, indeed ; however, I am 

going; to trv to reform thee. 
I he?.idyour ho^iiid bark^ your dog howl, and your 

hf>g grunt. 
Soon after the sun had set the sky began to lower. 
If thou storest thy hay or grain in a mow, thou 

mowest it« 
Tv'70 weeks after we had put our wet hay in our 

mow, it began tomowburn, 
A bird may fly about in the night without being an 

owl. 
The ship from its prow to its stern may be about 

seventy eight feet long 
Wild beasts wandering for prey by day or by night, 

may be said to prowl. 

y brother never bought any gunpowder in your 

shop. 
My sister found an empty powder horn in our 

meadow~- 
We neither dread your power nor ask for your fa- 
vour. 
The most powerful man must die sooner or later. 
Truly great men do not endeavour to gain renown. 
He did not repair to that bower to shelter himself 

from the shower. 
Thou shalt not depart on this showery day. 
If thou learnest to swim and float on the water^ 

thou wilt hardly drown. 
I saw a wild boar and shot a wild sow. 
I wish you would wash this dirty towel. 
If this tower stood on a high mountain, it might be 

seen from afar. 
We may say that very lofty heights tower in the sky. 



-i\ 



OF TEACHING. 283 

You might, in this way, transform a hamlet into a 

town. 
The federalists held a meeting in our township last 

Sundav a week. 
If thou hast lost thy trowel, how wilt thou spread 

the mortar now ? 
Dost thou not see that thou hast left a vowel out ? 
If thou makest a vow, thou must endeavour to 

keep it. 

OUGH. 

You ought to try to avoid that slough. 

Mind my boy that you ought to speed your plough. 

The doughty hero wants to frighten old women 
with threats. 

May not a boy or man drown on a droughty day ? 

I am not highly delighted with so long a drought. 

This tree lost in a stormy night its most power- 
ful bough. 

OUB == OU. 

Thou hast no right to doubt my modesty. 
This, my dear sir, ought to dispel your doubts. 
Their defeat may seem to you a doubtful event ; 
but not to me. 



SECTION XIV* 

Including the words in which the letter e represents 

nothing. 

E silent. 

I have no right to insult your enemy. 
I have been informed by your brother that you in- 
tend to thwart my plan. 



^8* THE METHOD 

We are ready to start, but you are not. 

They are invited to start with us ; hut are they 

ready? 
Have you a mind to abase yourself by so low a 

sleight ? 
Her own father and mother are said to further her 

abasement. 
My fear abates ; for I hear that her fever abates* 
Have you a mind to abide by it ? 
I see that you mistake the dative for the ablative. 
Have I not a right to ablegate any man I feel 

proper? 
Are you going to abnegate it for ever ? 
I intend to take up my abode in your town, 
I wish your abodement may be ungrounded. 
We have it not in our power to abominate a lovely 

thing. 
I do not believe that he remained there above 

three weeks. 
If you repeal any law you are said to abrogate it. 
I give you an absolute power over them. 
He must absolutely remain here four or five weeks. 
You may take it, but you ought to absterse it 

first. — 

You ought to buy some abstersive powder for your 

teeth. 
You have never seen an adamantine wall, nor I 

neither. 
So firm a federalist ought to adhere more firmly 

to the federal party. 
May not glue be said to be an adhesive body ^ 
If you regard a thing with wonder, you are said to 

admire it. 
Some adore the sun and some worship the moon. 
I wish you would speak to my adverse party. 
It advei'sperates ; if, therefore, thou dost not hie^ 

thou wilt be benighted here* 



OF TEACHING. 285 

They inform me that you intend to adulterate your 

Burgundy wine ; but I hope you do not. 
If you shadow out a thing you are said to adum- 
brate it. 
The aforesaid widow died three weeks after her 

brother. 
I see that you intend to play an aftergame. 
I like its taste, but I do not like its aftertaste. 
I went there and found them standing agape. 
Do you intend to pay more than a guinea for this 

agate ? 
So portentous an event might agaze any body. 
If you own a thing you are said to agnize it. 
Men bearing any violent bodily or mental pain, 

are said to agonize. 
Pray do not go so near that airhole. 
A true beau or fop ought to eat and to do every 

thing alamode. 
I wish you would give me some ale or water i for I 

am very thirsty. 
You may find some alehoof near that alehouse. 
An alehouse keeper ought not to blame an alewife 

for keeping an alehouse. 
The brother and sister are alike hated by almost 

every body. 
You have inadvertently harmed the best man alive. 
If you put an alkaline body in water for some time, 

you alkalizate the water, if I mistake not. 
You may find an almandine without hunting for it. 
If alternately you find flint and slate, we say that 

flint alternates with slate. 
Do not silversmiths amalgamate silver and gold 

nov/ and then ? 
I do not believe that the most violent storm would 

amate so brave a man. 
If it amazed you but for a moment, your amazement 

did not last long. 



^86 THE METIIOB 

I do not protest, nor have I ever protested against 
her amortizement. 

Some amove from and some admove to our neigh- 
bourhood. 

If you want to ampliate your house you must get 
more ground than you have. 

Something may be amygdaline without being 
amygdalate. 

I wish you would analyze every thing and believe 
nothing. 

The pope had formerly an undoubted right to 
anathematize every body. 

Have you not anatomized many a dead body in 
your life ? 

A body must absolutely be either animate or inan- 
imate. 

You are too animose, my friend ; I am afraid your 
animosity may lead you astray. 

Your lady ought to take some anodyne drug with- 
out delay. 

Thou shait find me ready at anytime to antagonize 
against thet. 

If you date something before the proper time you 
antedate it. 

There are found many antelopes in our forests. 

If he had taken my antidote he would not have died. 

A drug may be antetebrile without being either 
sweet or sour. 

There are neither popes nor antipopes in Vermont. 

If you ape them, they have aright to take you for 
an ape. 

If you apostatize we have a right to style you an 
apostate. 

You ought to permit him to open your aposteme. 

Did you not believe that your foot would aposte- 
mate ? 

If you make a thing fit for any purpose, you aptate it. 



OF TEACHIXG. 287 

I believe that you mistake this noun for an aptote. 
Would you take upon you to arbitrate it ? 
If you arietate, you imitate a ram. 
I wish you would order your servants to aroma- 
tize this room. 
Have you not a mind to send this boat ashore ? 
He would have hit me if I had not turned aside. 
We do not like to hear your asinine talk. 
My master did not order me to aslake it. 
I verily believe that you intend to asperate her 

temper. 
I swear to you that I do not remember that she 

did asperse you. 
You ought to aspirate this sound more strongly. 
If you pant after something higher, they say that 

you aspire at it. 
A prudent seaman ought not to go to sea without 

an astrolabe. 
A lady ought not to set astride on a horse. 
Let us now take up the hyperbole between its 

asymptotes. 
If you have done any harm to him you ought to 

atone for it. 
You may inform j^our sister that we are satisfied 

with her atonement. 
I had no idea that iie ever should try to avale your 

name and merit. 
I had never seen her auburn hair before. 
If you are averse to a thing you are very apt to do 

it aversely. 
Parents have an undoubted right to avize their son 

or daughter. 
May not a pear be very good without being an 

aurate ? 
Her parents seem to be very austere and to treat 

her very austerely. 
Did I ever authorize your brother to enter the army? 



28 S THE METHOD 

I believe they are^awake, but if they are not you 

must awake them. 
I do not believe that we have sold half an awme yet. 
You must be more aware than you are, if you do 

not wish to be taken in. 
I went to bed after nine in the evening and awoke 

before three in the morning. 
I do not believe that thou wilt find any green baize 

in town. 
If you had an oven, I should insist upon your 

baking your own bread. 
We found neither flour nor bread in your bake- 
house. 
If you had foreseen this baleful event would you 

not have foretold it ? 
We must send this bale to your father this very 

morning. 
We ought to finish the right balustrade by three 

in the afternoon. 
If you want to bane your rats, you must buy some 

rats bane. 
A plant may be baneful without being banewort 

or nightshade. 
Do you intend to barbarize our empire by this 

everlasting war ? 
I hope you do not permit him to run barefoot 

in the winter. 
You may bare either your right or your left arm. 
You are very eager to see a bare leg ; have you 

never seen any ? 
A man may be a bare bone without being either 

bare headed or bare footed. 
To have its afea, you have only to multiply its 

base by its height. 
I am not averse to a base sound, nor do I hate a 

base metal ; but I abhor a base deed and detest 

a base maue 



OF TEACHING. 2S9 

You have basely betrayed the only real friend you 

ever had. 
I have a mind to baste you for it at a tremendous 

rate . 
If you dread the bastinade you must not go to 

Turkey. 

ml 

Men that live in everlasting bates may be termed 

hateful men= 
I intend to make her bate her demand by this 

rumour. 
Do }'ou bathe and swim both in the morning and 

ev^ening? 
I would not have a bedlamite for my bedmate. 
Have you a mind to go to bed before bed time? 
Your brother ought to have spoken out beforehand. 
Begone, impious wight, i do not want to hear thee 

any furtherc 
You ought not to permit them to begrime their feet. 
Do you believe thai he did not try to beguile me ? 
A man ought not to behave like a boy. 
It behooved your mother to guard against it. 
It may be very behooveful for you for aught I 

understand. 
Tou, belike, do not wish to see her this evening. 
Your not being beloved by every body ought not 

to make you weep. 
You are going to bemire your sleigh. 
They say that three heavy ships are aground in the 

river. 
You may bereave me if you have a right to do so. 
There were but three men at the meeting beside 

my father* 
If you harden or dry any thing in smoke, we ma^ 

say that you smoke it. 
If you stride over a thing we may say that yo'^ 
bestride it. 

^ a 



290 THE IVIETH0B 

No sooner had he seen the enemy than tie thought 

proper to betake himself to the boat. 
I heartily wish that so great an evil may never 

betide you. 
If you want to do it endeavor to do it betime. 
If thou dost not beware thou wilt undoubtedly 

get hurt. 
I had rather bide on a high mountain than in a 

marshy plain. 
A man may have more bile than another without 

having more blood. 
Do you intend to have your barn bipartite ? 
You have forgot to dip this twig in birdlime. 
Perhaps you thought that it would bite you. 
If vou drt ad its bite you must not play with it. 
An animal may be bivalve without being an oyster. 
I have never seen a bizantine nor do i wish to see 

any. 
In order that a sword may e good it must have 

a good blade. 
If you behave yourself blameably you give us a 

right to blame you. 
Ought your parents to be blamed for your leading 

so blameful a life ? 
I do not doubt but they are a great deal more 

blam.eworthy than you. 
I wish you or your brother had seen its blaze. 
I do not want your help to make the fire blaze. 
A girl may be blithe without speaking blithly. 
Thatbiithsome young lady ought to play on the harp* 
If you dry a thing by the smoke we may say that 

you blote it. 
If you should dishevel my hair, you would trans- 
form me into a blovvze. 
I see that vou have a mind to treat me like your 

liond slave* 



OF TE .ACHING. 291 

Do you take this event for a good or a bad bode- 

ment ? 
I wish their defeat may not bode our total rain. 
A bone may be broken let it be ever so hard. 
I do not believe that he would boneset for nothing. 
You must first bone your meat and then salt it. 
Hast thou ever seen so fine a bonfire in thy life ? 
You ought to try to make yourself beloved by your 

bookmates. 
My father bore firmly the most violent pain. 
Do you not intend to bore this board. 
We have borne the greatest hardships without a 

murmur. 
I held the bowline with my right hand and fired a 

pistol with my left. 
I have a mind to take this brake and hide it in that 

brake. 
A man may be brave without braving any body. 
I have been informed that he did not defend him- 
self bravely. 
You must try to braze it in the forenoon. 
Brave men like you do not need any breastplates. 
If they do not breathe any more they must be dead. 
I wish with all my heart that a breeze may spring 

up from the south. 
They intended to bribe her, but she would not take 

their bribe. 
If you wish to see the bride you must take your 

stand there. 
The bridegroom and the lovely bride intend to 

take a brazing ride. 
Would you not take mv brother for a brideman 

and mv sister for a bridemaid? 
There were more than thirty-seven men on board 

our brigantine. 



S'92 THE '^lETHO'D 

Do you intend to impregnate this v/ater v/ith brim- 
stone ? 

Thou wilt find neither brine nor brine pits in our 
ne i ghbou rh oo d . 

No horse likes to be stung by a brise or a 2'ad 
%. 

The sloop gave us the first broadside^ but we re- 
turned it without delay. 

He broke about two months ago ; and now he 
broke s. 

I like fresh and limpid water, let it be brook lime 
or not. 

Have you ever met with a brute like her father? 

I went to the burse to look for your brother, but I 
did not find him therCo 

1 have a mind to barter her dame for a young and 
vigorous horse. 

I dare say tha.t you would not dare so dareful a 
man. 

I have a mind to dare larks, on the first darksome 
day. 

Your brother brought a note from you without a 
date. 

You must make haste if you w^ant to get there in 
day time. 

Your own father ordered me to de alb ate them. 

We must try to wake her, and to break her death- 
like slumber. 

Her father tried in vain to debase her heart and 
mind. 

You have to blame your own parents for your men- 
tal debasement. 

If you did understand the points you are debating, 
your debate would be soon at an end. 

If you make or render a man debile, you debilitate 
him. 



OF TEACHING. 293 

You may defatlgate a man without defaming him, 
and you may defame him without defatigating 
him. 

You ought to have employed a defensative. 

If you make a defensive war, you keep yourself 
on the defensive. 

If thou hast defiled our fountain, thou shalt be 
rewarded for it. 

He ordered our brigade to take post in a defile. 

If you define a word, you render its meaning de- 
finite. 

This point may be defined in our definitive treaty. 

Have you not ordered us definitely to invade low- 
er Austria ? 

Have you a mind to degrade yourself by so mean 
a sleight ? 

If thou wishest to deintegrate it, thou shalt be at 
liberty to do so. 

If we delegate thee, thou wilt be our delegate. 

I should be very glad if you would delete my name, 

I wish that you would deliberate, before you take 
this step. 

If you speak deliberately, we may term you a de- 
liberate man. 

I wish you would delineate so delightsome a grove. 

He ordered me to delve this meadow, and to make 
a delve all around it. 

They try to beguile you, and you try to delude 
them. 

We do not want you to demonstrate so plain a 
truth. 

Did not your father order us to denigrate it ? 

Thev thought proper to denominate it so. 

This treaty denotes a great depravity in our gov- 
ernment. 

Water must be a great deal more dense than air.- 

A a 2 



^Si THE METHOD 

If ou make a man poor, you depauperate him. 

We deplume a bird, and we deplore a mishap. 

Your brother deponed a guinea, without our ask- 
ing for it. 

We do not wish you to deprave this young man« 

You first depredate their property, and then you 
deride them. 

Have you derived any profit from that bargain ? 

A fatal fever desolates our island every year. 

They say that you are desperately in love with her. 

You ought not to be despiteful, for you derive no 
benefit from your despite. 

They inform nie that you intend to desponsate 
them before my return. 

Your father destinates this book for your improve- 
ment. 

Do you destine this fine army to perish by famine ? 

I wish 3^ou would determine our fate without delay. 

A good king may be dethroned, but a bad king 
ought to be dethroned and hung. 

It would be very hard for you to detonize brim- 
stone. 

If you thrust a thing down, you detrude it. 

You are going to devastate Poland, and plunder its 
inhabitants. 

I wish that you w^ould develope our plan to your 
brother. 

If you deviate from the right way, you go un- 
doubtedly astray. 

Do ;,'OU intend to devolve your task upon me ? 

Your mother devotes her life to your ioiprovement. 

May we not term a king a diademed fool ? 

A wolf dilaniates a sheep, without the least re- 
morse. 

If you should enter a dark room your iris would 
dilate. 



OF TEACHIKG. 295 

You must dilute this powder with fresh water. 

If you do not believe a story, you are said to dis- 
believe it. 

We must try to dispense with their help. 

We must endeavour to defeat and to disperse the 
invading army. 

Set fire to that powder, and thou wilt displode it in 
an instant. 

You must endeavour to disprove this infamous tale. 

Somethin?^ that distastes you may be termed dis- 
tasteful. 

The air may be either temperate or distemperate. 

They like to bathe and to swim, but they do not 
like to dive. 

If you talk the same way, you do not talk diversely. 

It may be a divertive play, though you do not 
like it. 

You ought to divide seventy by five, and multiply 
ninety by eight. 

You may be a great divine, without divining any 
thing. 

I neither do nor ever did dogmatize, therefore I 
am no dogmatist. 

There would be no great wonder in finding a dog- 
louse in a dog hole. 

If thou art doomed to dole it;, thou wilt have a dole- 
ful mien. 

How dolesome you look this morning, are you in 
a brown study ? 

The enemy endeavoured to destroy our elegant 
dome. 

The western wind dominates beyond that lofty 
mountain. 

Do you not intend to bribe my father with this do- 
native ? 



W6 THE METHOD 

A dormouse sleeps through the winter, but awakes 

early in the spring. 
I do not belie""e that they have done any harm to you. 
I do not want to take bark, and therefore you need 

not dose any for me. 
You have got your dose, I see, but I have not got 

mine. 
I verily believe that your parents begin to dote. 
I found this dough in our dove house. 
You have a mind to douse me, have you ? 
You are in love with a dowered woman, or rather 

with the dowery. 
Men that are half asleep, are said to dose or to^ 

slumber. 
Do you intend to buy a drayhorse ? 
We must endeavour to drive the enemv from that 

height. 
An idling and trilling man, may be said to drone, 

or to be a drone. 
We drove the enemy before us, but we lost a 

great many men. 
If you bring up and feed an infant without the 

breast, you are said to be a dry nurse. 
If you spin out or lengthen a thing, you are said to 

eke it. 
How many months must yet elapse, before we see 

you again ? 
If you do a thing elaborately, we may say that 

you elaborate it. 
1 do not like to read that elaborate poem. 
Every defeat we sustain must elate our enemy. 
Do you intend to elevate that man to so' important 

a dignity. 
If you break a thing, learned men would say that 

you elide it. 



OF TEACHING. 397 

You say that you have seen my brother, but have 
you seen noboby else ? 

They say that your wife had a mind to elope from 
your board and bed. 

Thou mayest elope, but thou wilt rue thy elope- 
ment. 

The enemy endeavoured in vain to elude our pur- 
suit. 

Did he order you to elute or to elutriate it? 

The order I give you, emanates from an authority" 
far higher than mine. 

By trying to embase my name, you embase your 
own. 

I see that your lady wants to emblase every room. 

If you leave your native soil, you are said to emi- 
grate. 

If you do not like to be empaled, you must not go 
to Turkey. 

I wish you would make the dovetail broader than 
that. 

You must embale this wool, and then send it to my 
brother. 

Our states are destined to be in a short time the 
greatest empire in the world. 

If you want to be endenised, you must stay here a 
year and two months. 

Ha-\'e you a mind to endite my brother for murder ? 

I wish your father would endorse this paper. 

I foretold you that your endorsements would ruin 
you. 

A young man like you, ought not to enervate him- 
self. 

The pursuing enemy overtook our flying brigade 
in an enfilade. 

I took it to an engraver and told him he must en- 
grave it within two weeks. 



29a THE METHOD 

If you are an enlightened man, you have a right to 

set up for an enlightener. 
Have you a mind to enlumine every house in our 

street ? 
Have you a mind to enrobe me without having a 

robe ? 
It would be hard work for you to enslave so brave 

a man. 
They told the tyrant boldly that their enslavement 

must end sooner or later. 
If you enthrone a man you invest him with sover- 
eign authority. 
Dou you intend to admit an enthymeme, without 

understanding its bearing? 
If you want to keep this estate entire, you must 

not divide it. 
I have learned it formerly, but I have entirely for- 
got it. 
I want some brown paper for an envelope ; have 

you got any ? 
In order not to tire us with this episode, you must 

not make it too long. 
We must endeavour to erase this Spanish word. 
By this erasement we prevented the enemy from 

taking shelter. 
I ardently hope that thou wilt see thy fond mother 

ere long. 
If a man should live alone in this world, he would 

be an eremite. 
If you v\^ant to see a living ermine, you must not 

repair to a warm land. 
This drug I thought would erode your v»^art in 

two weeks. 
An ermined man may be a greater fool than a 

naked man. 



OF TEACHING. 29.9 

I do not esteem your erudite mother for her 

learning but for her piety. 
This esplanade may be about eighcy-nine feet 

broad or wide. 
I sold my estate before I Icr^ft my native soil. 
Do you not intend to eternize your name and your 

fame ? 
Your brother would have evaded this peril if he 

had been more prudent. 
In hot weather water or milk evaporates in a short 

time. 
The eve before a holiday maybe termed holy eve. 
He eventerates a hog or a dog without the least 

remorse. 
I wish your brother would eventilate this grain. 
If men demolish a house or a town they are said 

to everse it. 
In order to understand a thing you must evesti- 

gate ir. 
I should prefer being evil favored to being evil 

minded-. 
A thing we do not like we ought to evitate. 
Wk must t ndcavor to unfold or to evolve their plan. 
Any thing you do not like to see may be termed 

an eye sore. 
Men and brutes grow old and die, but plants fade 

or wither and then die. 
If you want to do a good deed you must do it fair 

and promptly. 
A false friend may do more harm to you than an 

open enemy. 
Falsehearted men are very apt to say a falsehood. 
You did not speak the truth, and, therefore, you 

spoke falsely. 
You are a famed man, but I do not envy your fame. 
Have you laever seen a vane on a fane i 



300 t-HFj iviethob 

An animal may Kurt you without being fanged. 
How do you fare, my friend ? you look very gloomy. 
You have it in your pov/er to avert our fate, 
A man must be a great fool to fatigate a poor 

horse to no purpose. 
You might have favored me with a reply ere now. 
The feathered tribe begin to sing early in the spring. 
You are said tofreaze a rope if you untwist its end. 
We must endeavor to diminish her febrile heat. 
This law would not be adopted by the federate 

states. 
If the enemy had feigned a retreat they would 

have taken us in. 
I do nut deny the tiger to be a f line animal. 
I have told you already that I do not v/ant a female 

Servant. 
A being may be feminine without being either soft 

or tender. 
It would be hard work for you to fertilize so bad 

a soil. 
If you hire a lifer you must also get or buy a fife 

for him. 
If you want to sharpen your saw you must get a 

good file. 
Foul water may be made good if you filtrate it. 
If thou workest on a Sunday thou wilt have to pay 

a heavy fine. 
An ugly woman may be a very good fine drawer. 
Have you a mind to fine so fine a young lady ? 
Your daughter ought to learn to fine draw, to spin 

and to sow. 
You may set a house on lire without throwing a 

firebrand on it. 
If you have neither firg; wood nor fire stone you do 

not want a fire shovel. 
I did not find any five leaved plants inyourmeadow* 



OF TEACHING. o9i 

I wish you would transform this wool into flakes. 
There may be fire without flame, but did you ever 

see flame w^ithout fire ? 
An animal may be flap eared without being asinine. 
They foredesigned the war and forearmed their 

youth. 
You rub \'our forehead to no purpose. 
You have not forfeited your money, but you have 

forfeited our esteem. 
If you have not harmed me, I have nothing to for- 
give you. 
Your brother harmed me inadvertently, but I 

forgave him. 
I hope that thou wilt not forsake thy poor old 

mother. 
We do not find any freestone in our neighbourhood. 
Did you ever see the water freeze on a hot day ? 
I wanted to buy some frieze but I did not find any. 
We had twelve men w^ounded on board our frigate. 
Have you a mind to frustrate our best hopes ? 
If you want the powder to fulminate? you must set 

4t on fire. 
If you boast fulsomely we may term your boasting 

fulsome. 
Some term this plant gorse, bat we term it furze. 
Our two ships parted in a heavy gale. 
If you like to game you are a gamester. 
From'your speaking so gamesomely we infer that 

you are a gamesome man. 
You begin to gape or to yawn, and therefore you 

ma}'^ go to bed. 
If you understand gardening, you may be termed 

a gardner. 
The gate vein transmits the blood to the liver. 
Have you a mind to drive your gig through this 

gateway ? 

B b 



302 TIJE METHOD 

If you look intently and earnestly at a thing, y6u 

gaze at it. 
If you yield any thing to me, you are said to give 

it up. 
This glade may be about seventy eight feet wide. 
If you are delighted with any thing, you are said 

to be gladsome. 
I only want the yelk, and you may throw away the 

glair e. 
May not the sun, at noon, be said to glare ? 
I believe that you mistake a glave for a sword. 
I wish you would find somebody to glaze this 

room. 
We seldom see a glede sit upon the glebe. 
If you glide, you move swiftly and smoothly along* 
I have determined not to mind her foolish glike. 
Many learned men believe the earth to be a globe* 
Do you not take the sun to be a globose body ? 
I wish your sister would begin to glomerate her 

thread. 
Tou must mistrust men that glose or fawn upon 

you 
My sister found a green glove behind our garden. 
Her father may be a very good man without being 

a godlike man. 
They were here some time ago, but I believe they 

are gone now. 
I see some gore on that goar ; you must wash it 

out. 
You ought to provide your daughter with a 

governante. 
Do you take any grained body for a granite ? 
You may find very fine granate in our neighbour- 
hood. 
If you are my grandson, I must be your grandsire. 
A grape, i believe^ must be either sweet or sour* 



OF TEACHING. 30^ 

If you inib any thing on a hard body, you are said 

to grate it. 
He ought to be grateful, if you have bestowed so 

many benefits upon him. 
May not the grave be termed our last and ever- 
lasting abode ? 
If you delineate a thing on any hard body, you are 

said to grave. 
A man may have a grave and serious look without 

being either. 
Do you permit your horse to graze in our meadow? 
If you want to have this grease melted, you must 

put it over the fire. 
After we had done talking, your brother went up 

that greese. 
A good grenade ought to burst about two feet 

above ground. 
I wish that your father would make this old razor 

gride. 
If you are in pain for something past, you are said 

to grieve at it. 
How wilt thou free thy feet from the grime with- 
out soap ? 
If you hold a thing fast with your right or with 

your left hand, you are said to gripe it. 
You may get the gripes without eating sour grapes. 
Did not I order your brother to make a groove in 

this pine board ? 
If you want to find your v/ay through a long and 

dark room* 3''ou must grope along. 
Let us enter that grove and take a walk in the shade. 
Do not you see that grouse on yon lofty oak. 
We must try to hire a guide, if we want to get 

through this forest in so dark a night. 
I believe that you have to deal with a wily and 

guileful man. 



^^* THE METHOD 

You may find some haberdine in our fish market 

before May. 
We have it not in our power to habilitate your 

brother. 
A man may be hale or healthy without being stout 

or strong. 
Draw a straight line and halve it. 
If you either make or retail hardware, you are a 

hard ware man. 
A man may be harebrained without having ever 

seen or shot a hare. 
I do not believe that you have it in your power to 

harmonize them. 
If thou dost not make haste, thou wilt be overtaken 

by the storm before thou hast done. 
I defy you to love a hateful man or to esteem a 

varlet. 
We see a great deal further in a haze than in a fog. 
Thou wilt take thy last ride on a hearse like other 

folks. 
If you pant or breathe with pain you are said to 

heave. 
You do not find any helmed men in a modern 

army. 
The helve ought to be at least five feet and a half 

long. 
Thou wilt find some henbane behind yon pear tree. 
We never see any geese hereabouts. 
If thou hast felt it heretofore, thou wilt remember 

it hereafter. 
We must now abandon our heroine to her fate. 
If you withdraw any thing from my sight, you are 

said to hide it from me. 
I wish you would hand me that hide. 
If you believe this horse to be hide bound, you 

ought not to buy him. 



OF TEACHING. 305 

You have got your hire, I believe, and so you may 

start. 
It must be very hard for a hireling to be a good 

historian. 
Our house may be distant from the hithe about. 

half a mile. 
We found a great many wasps in this hive. 
You hear that I am hoarse and you want me to sing ? 
If you want to get through this wall, you must make 

a hole in it. 
If you have no home, you may go abroad without 

leaving your home. 
A plain and rude man may be said to be a home- 
bred man. 
You may find many a homely woman in our ele- 
gant metropolis. 
If you want to sharpen your razor, you must buy 

a good hone. 
I ardently hope that thou wilt find him at home. 
Do you not take your eldest son for a hopeful boy ? 
Thou wilt find some very good hornstone about a 

mile from our house. 
This hornpipe may be delightful for young folks, 

but I'detest it. 
You say that you have tasted horse flesh, but how 

did you like it I 
A nian may make a very good horse shoe without 

being a good horseman. 
Tender plants must be kept and reared in a hot 

house. 
A man may get tipsy without going to a house 

warming. 
If you idolize or idolatrize a woman, you may be 

said to be an idolater. 
If you set a house or any other thing on fire, a 

learned man would say that you ignite it. 
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$06 THE MEIHOD 

We Ignore many a thing that we oughtnot to ignore. 
You ought to prevent your lovely daughter from 

imbibing all that nonsense. 
If you would let him imbibe all this nonsense, you 

would undoubtedly imbrute him. 
An animal that imitates another maybe termed an 

imitative animal. 
If you would bestow this favour upon me, you 

would imparadise me. 
If he wants to go there, you must try to impede 

him. 
My brother would only sneer at your imperative 

tone. 
I went there this morning and found the wall 

imperforate. 
If you obtain any thing by entreaty, you are said to 

impetrate it. 
Have you a iTiind to impignorate your estate? 
If you had implored our aid, we should have 

granted it to you. 
Might not a bat be termed an implumed bird ? 
I should not like to have to deal with so rude and 

impolite a man. 
I believe that you ought to impregnate this brandy 

with alum. 
I thought that your father had a mind to impro- 
priate my house. 
Xhe soil did not seem to be very fertile, but we 

must try to improve it, if we should buy the land. 
I believe that you are not very eager for making 

improvements in your state. 
We feel its impulse and we must try to destroy it. 
Without an impulsive power there would be no 

impulse. 
A stone or any other mineral may be termed an 

inanimate body. 



OF TEACHr5fC;. SOT 

Yon draw an indefinite line, if j^ou do not deter- 
mine its length. 
That indeliberate step brought on your ruin. 
I verily believe that you have formed the design 

to inebriate me. 
It woi-.ld be high time for you to forget your infan- 
tine deportment. 
Do you believe that we dread their infinite power? 
A sore throat might be more properly termed an 

inflamed throat. 
I repeat it over again that we do not want you to 

inflate it. 
May not the spring be said to infoliate plants ? 
To inhale the fresh and fragrant air you must get 

up with the sun. 
An event may be inopinate and a wish may be 

inordinate. 
Insensate men ! are you going to inshrine this 

inanimate body. 
I do not see how this imprudent step would 

inserve your purpose. 
They have endeavoured to insnare us, but we have 

defeated their purpose. 
If you dry meat or any other thing in the sun, you 

may be said to insolate it. 
Do you believe that God would inspire an impostor ? 
Have you ever read a more insulse and insipid 

poem than this ? 
If you make a thing soft or tender, I say that you 

intenerate it 
If you eat intemperately you ought to be termed 

an intemperate man. 
If you do not like an intense heat, you must not 

heat your stove so intensely. 
I told him that my father would never interfere 

with so foolish a plan. 



305 THE MEIHOB 

I neither ordered you to interleave nor to interline 

my books. 
The time flowing between any tv/o events may be 

termed,an interlapse. 
I plainly saw that he had a mind to interlope, but 

I hindered him from doing so. 
The play highly delighted us, but we did not like 

the interlude. 
They say that the pope ordered them to interpolate 

this foolish story. 
You must endeavour to intertwine the greening 

sprouts. 
Many dreadful events may intervene between two 

distant events. 
If thou makest thy testament, thou wilt not die 

intestate. 
We are infested with a foreign and intestine war 

at the same time. 
If you inthrone this man, you give him a right to 

reign over you, or rather to enthral you. 
If you trust me with your thoughts, you take me 

for your intimate friend. 
Ought I merely to intimate my design, or ought I 

rather to point it out plainly and openly ? 
They at first endeavoured to intimidate me by their 

threats. 
You may try to intrude your tenets upon other men 

without being a priest. 
Every body hates and detests this intrusive wight. 
The enemy durst not invade the northern states. 
They intend to invalidate this deed, but I hope 

thou wilt prevent them from doing so. 
I believe that any invasive army would be destroyed 

in a short time. 
We must try to investigate the mystery. - 
Our inveterate enemy again makes war upon us. 



OF TEACHING. 309 

I have borne great hardships but they did not 

invigorate my body. 
We must try to transmit our rights entire and 

inviolate to our posterity. 
I did not invite your brother to side with us. 
You invoke in vain heaven and earth ; you must die. 
Have you not a mind to inweave this red yarn ? 
You are an ireful man, but we do not dread your ire. 
Have you not a mind to end your irksome talk ? 
A woman talks irksomely, if you do not like to hear 

her talk. 
Are you not glad to leave our frozen isle ? 
If you do a thing over again you are said to iterate it. 
He insulted the seamen and they keelhauled him 

for it. 
I thought that he would poke it into the keyhole. 
The keystone must be more elevated than the 

remainder. 
If you have a kibe on your left foot, you are kibed 

indeed. 
You may find kitesfoot in our garden without seeing 

a kite. 
I believe that they have not begun yet to lade our 

ship. 
I thought that we had more than thirteen ships on 

the lakes. 
I wish that you would take your lambative yourself, 
A lazy man may work lamely without being lame. 
Have you a mind to lapidate this holy man ? 
Every body may lapse, therefore you ought not to 

mind so trifling a lapse. 
If thou sowest late thou wilt imdoubtedly harvest 

late. 
Have you not lately bought a very fine lathe ? 
Do you not latinize in order to shew ws that vou 

are a learned man • 



olO THE METHOD 

We do not intend to lave our foul linen, before we 

get fair and warm weather. 
Do you not want to let me this house by lease ? 
I wish that you would give me leave to leave this 

room. 
The oaks are not leaved yet, but thou wilt see 

them leaved in a short time. 
I believe that the alderman ought to legalize your 

deed. 
Oar holy father wants to send a legate to Smolensk©. 
This lenitive would soon dispel your pain. 
Perhaps they belong to the leonine tribe. 
If you rub or grind any thing to a very fine powder, 

you levigate it. 
A man may be a good Hebrew without being alevite. 
You hope in vain to liberalize a tyrant. 
I never intended to liberate so great a libertine. 
If you i make him king, you must give him a life- 
guard. 
Divide this horizontal line into two or three parts. 
If you want to litigate my hereditament, you must 

hire a lawyer. 
May not this bough be lithe without being live ? 
A young lad ought to be more lively and brisk 

than an old man. 
Hast thou a mind to barter a diamond for a load- 
stone ? 
You have eaten meat to satiety and you wonder 

that you loathe it ! 
You may find a thing loathsome without being very 

fastidious. 
Your friend informed me that the sword went 

through your right lobe. 
You do not like to be lone in a lonely house. 
Every evening they repair to a lonesome dale to 

vent their grief there. 



OF TEAemi^^G. oil 

A sermon we do not like to hear may be longsome 
or tedious without lasting long. 

Do you mean to satisfy your father with this loop- 
hole t 

If you do not let me loose I must try to break loose. 

You ought to be more grateful for the important 
lore he imparted to your son. 

Beloreyou throwyourspear, must you notlibrateit^ 

A man may speak lovelily without being lovely. 

A man may sing a love song or relate a love tale, 
without having ever been foiled in a love suit. 

A louse may live and feed on any animal body. 

Milk, moderately warm, may, I believe, be termed 
lukewarm. 

If you defend me lukewarmly, you are but a luke- 
warii. defender 

I have hunted for som.e lupine, but I did not find any. 

You may lute a pot or any other thing without your 
having ever seen or played on a lute. 

Do not forget to buy some lutestring before you 
leave the town. 

A famous Italian master taught her to play on the 
lyre. 

Though I am your intimate friend, I do not permit 
you to make free with my money. 

I told you already that we do not want any make- 
weight. 

I do i^ot say that you are malapert, but I maintain 
that you are a makebate. 

If you have bought a male, you must also buy a 
female. 

I do not doubt but he would find fault with your 
manlike deportment. 

H.:ve you not a mind to part with your old mare '? 

He bought some very fine margarites for our mar- 
grave. 



I 



S12 THE METHOD 

A man may be a good marine without being a 

good mariner. 
I do not believe that we have any thing to fear for 

our maritime states. 
The word matadore must have a meaning, I w^een, 

for a gamester. 
If you do not want to be alone, you must take a mate. 
You need not try to maze me, I am already in a 

maze. 
If you intervene between us, you mediate and you 

are our mediator. 
Do not the federalists aid our insulting enemy 

mediately. 
If you revolve any design in your mind, you are 

said to meditate it. 
I have bought a very paltry farm, but I mean to 

meliorate it. 
If the membrane infolding your heart should be 

seriously hurt, you would not live long. 
If 5'ou memorize any events, you may be termed 

a memorialist. 
If you want to wis its length, you must mete it. 
A woman may understand midwifery^ without 

being a midwife. 
'The river may be distant from our house about a 

mile and a half. 
I met your brother near the first mile stone. 
If thou takest him for a milklivered man, thou 

wilt ere long find out thy mistake. 
I see that you have not forgot yet to play the mime. 
This hat, I ween, must be either mine or thine. 
A mi^n may be a good mineralist v/ithout having 

ever (iug a mine. 
A man may be mirthful, though he v/alks in the mire. 
A gloomy evertt may misgive you, but it never 

ought to misguide you. 



eF TEACHliNfei. SIS 

If you had not misbehaved, they would not mislike 

you. 
I do not believe that we have any mithridate ia 

our shop. 
He delights in transforming every mite into a lion. 
The governor durst not try to mitigate their 

punishment. 
Did not you pay more than a moidore and a half 

for it:' 
An animal may work and live under ground with- 
out being a mole. 
I see that your government wants to monopolize 

your trade. 
They seem to have a mind to mope us with this 

nonsense. 
Our pious bishops like to moralize, but we d© 

not like their moral. 
You speak and behave so morosely that every 

body must take you for a morose man. 
You must wait until 1 have done with this mortise. 
If the enemy make a movement, they must have a 

motive for it. 
Have you not a plant denominated mousetail ia 

your garden ■ 
Do not move your feet, if you want the mouse to 

remain there. 
May not a louse be denominated a multipede ? 
Do you believe that 1 have already forgot her name? 
He may be a native Irishman without being your 

namesake. 
Do you intend to navigate this lake in the winter? 
After having left the aisle we entered the nave. 
Your untimely negative would onl}' thwart our plan. 
I wish that our learned anatomist would shew me 

an auditory nerve. 
Did you ever hear a nightingale sing in the winter? 

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31* TME METHOD 

I did not iind any nightshade in this field. 

[f thou mukipliest eight by nine thou wilt g^et 

seventy-two. 
You ought to divide five nineteenths by seventeen 

ninetcienths. 
If thou augmentest ninety-seven by two, thou wilt 

get ninety-nine. 
If thou lookest sharp, thou wilt undoubtedly see 

the node. 
If you should boast so noisomely, every body 

would deride your noisome boast. 
You want me to give you some money, but I have 

none, 
I see that you mistake the dative for the nominative. 
If you have any notes to make you must get a note- 
book. 
Do you intend to nurse that mad woman ? 
I have never invited your brother to obliterate it. 
A man may be obstinate v/ithout employing an 

obsolete word. 
I see that you have a mind to obtrude your tenets 

upon us. 
You are bound to obtemperate your parents. 
A body may be oleose without being olidous. 
I btlieve that you have mistaken an olive for an 

oleaster. 
I wish that your mother would give us an omelet 

for our breakfast. 
I do not believe that this event ominates our ruin. 
The ooze in our fishpond must be at least two feet 

deep. 
If you are a poet you have a right to say, ope the 

door. 
You have a right to opine, but you have no right to 

operate. 
If you want to sleep soundly^ you must take some 

opiate. 



OF TEACHING. oio 

Before we begin to fight we must organize our 

army. 
Wilt thou give the same length to all thy organ- 
pipes ? 
How many weeks must i travel in order to over- 
take him ? 
Pc rhaps you mistake its outside for its outline. 
A young and healthy woman may outlive an old 

num. 
If you eat very hot meat, you may burn your palate 

without any vvondcr. 
The young palatine handed your palt eyed sister 

into the room. 
Did not the king order you to palisade this fort ? 
Your heart palpitates, have you been frightened ? 
Every pane must be ten feet long and five feet 

wide. 
I do not doubt but your brother broke this pantile. 
A man may be a great pantomime without being a 

great orator. 
Ail our troops were ordered to be drawn up on the 

parade ground. 
How long did Adam and Eve live in the paradise ? 
The British adherents endeavor to paralyze our 

'jjovernment. 
I wish that you would pare this nail before you 

go to bed. 
The enemv sent all our men home on parole. 
I donot want any paste, but I want some pasteboard. 
This would be very great sport for you, but it 

would not be any pastime for me. 
Our governour ordered all our streets to be paved 

within ten or twelve weeks. 
If you do not like to ride over the pavement, you 

must take this lane. 



516 ^HE IVffiTHOS) 

They endeavoured to penetrate our right wing but 

they were foiled. 
He walks pensively about in your pensile garden. 
I have seen your friend ; he seemed to look very 

pensive. 
A shed hanging out aslope from the main wall 

may be termed a penthouse* 
1 believe that you mistake a pantile for a pentile. 
1 wish you v>'Ould let me hear the penultimate 

sound again, 
I like to deal with a peregrine man, but I do not 

like to peregrinate m^yself. 
If you wantto periiate it, you must first perforate It. 
If you did not perpetrate this murder, you do not 

risk to be hung. 
How long wlit thou persevere }'et in thy idolatrous 

worship ? 
They sec:m to be very persistive, but v/e are not so. 
The earl took it upon himself to personate the king* 
In the winter we but seldom perspire sensibly. 
This rumour would soon pervade the army. 
li you speak and behave perversely, we have a 

right to term you a perverse man. 
They are going to build a pesthouse in our tov>^n. 
Our pikemen should be armed with pikes twenty- 
two feet long. 
It would take you more than a day to drive this 

pile into the ground. 
Have you a mind to pine away your life ? 
I am going to plant a pipe tree under this pine tree. 
We must endeavour to seize and to punish the 

pirates. 
If you would lend me a plane, I would plane this 

board. 
I have never seen any platraie in our neighborhood. 



OF TEACHIXG. 317 

I believe that two plates and two forks are wanting. 
A man may wear a plume without being a great 

hero. 
If you are, avowedly, a wantwit, you ought not 

to plume yourself upon your wit. 
A fowl may be palmipede without being fat. 
A navigator may see the pole star without being 

near the pole. 
If you speak and behave politely, you may be 

termed a polite man. 
I should not like to besmear my head with fetid 

pomade. 
Your brother wants to barter a pomeroyal for a 

pomegranate. 
They ought to bestow the popedom on our worthy 

bishop. 
You have a popeseye in your thigh, though you 

are no pope. 
If you look very intensely at a thing, you are said 

to pore over it. 
If you date any instrument later than the real time, 

you postdate it. 
You may get a good post horse without repairing 

to the post house. 
They have agreed to postpone their meeting for 

some time. 
The pirates have taken a prame loaded with flour 

and pork. 
If you want to hear a foolish prate, you have only 

to get three or four modish women together. 
If you believe that God predestinates us, you are 

a predestinarian. 
Your friend ought to have predetermined this 

important point 
A thirst for glory predominates in their breasts. 
You have delighted our prelate with your prelude. 

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3iS THE aiETHOD 

He persists in saying that he did not premeditate 
her murder. 

You may prepare a sermon without being a parson. 

I highly regret that your sentiments did not' pre- 
ponderate. 

We must, at any rate, endeavour to prevene them* 

Do you not take this drug for a preventive ? 

I pardon your pride, but I detest your vanity. 

They made you a primate, but you are no great 
ornamentf to your primateship. 

You have perhaps forgot to prime 3'our gun. 

Did not your grandfather live among the primitive 
inhabitants ? 

Vie must endeavor to regain our pristine power 
and dignity. 

If a private man fits out a ship for plundering the 
enemy, we term that ship a privateer. 

Inform your master that I want to speak to him 
privately. 

If you wish for the prize, you must try to gain it. 

Do you take every prizefighter for your enemy? 

If you want me to probe your wound, I must send 
for a probe. 

Do you wonder that so impious a man should pro- 
fane the divine name ? 

You promulgate this law in order to promote your 
own interest. 

All men are alike prone to retaliate an insult. 

They do not seem to be prepense to propagate the 
gospel. 

We must endeavour to prostrate the British naval 
power. 

If you thrust any thing forward, you protrude it. 

Let us not forget to provide against that event. 

They have formed the purpose to purloin your 
. money. 



©F TEACHING. 319 

A man may be purseproud without having a 
purse. 

The enemy did not endeavour to rake our frigate. 

A man may be a great rake without handling a 
rake. 

Have I not a right to maintain that you rate your 
labour too high ? 

Did not you intend to reave our money ? 

We have baptized him and we are going to rebap- 
tize him. 

Did you ever see a reermouse fly about in the day 
time ? 

I would not undertake to refine this silver. 

I would not take your word for so speedy a reim- 
bursement. 

Without a lapse there would be no relapse. 

Your relative relates the same foolish story over 
again. 

Do you intend to relegate them all together, or have 
you a mind to release some ? 

Did 1 not order 3/ou to relieve that centinel first ? 

If they^ put out the fire, thou wilt have to relu- 
mine it. 

We do not impel your brethren to remigrate. 

If you want to remonstrate against this law, you 
must do so promptly. 

Your sentiments relative to this war are very re- 
mote from mine. 

The king ought to remove this foolish man from 
the ministry. 

The most renowned hero may be beaten by a des- 
perate foe. 

Our government should never renovate so fatal a 
treaty. 

Let us shew them that we are not entirely satisfied 
with their reparative. 



S30 THE IVIETHOB 

A book may be replete with the greatest nonsense 

and yet read by every body. 
Our governour ought not to reprieve that reprobate. 
Your gardener ought to reprime that fragrant 

shrub. 
I stronglv fear that thou wilt meet with a repulse. 
You must permit me to blame your design and to 

reprove your sentiments. 
This imprudent response would only inflame their 

envy. 
If you want to restore your health speedily, you 

must take this restorative. 
My lady did not retire until late in the evening. 
Did not the sun reverberate upon the thermometer. 
Do you not revile them for having revived so bad 

a law ? 
If they should revoke their delegate, we should un- 
doubtedly revoke our order. 
In order to solve this important problem you must 

revolve it in your mind for some time. 
Hike to ride on a horse, but I do not like to ride 

in a gig. 
Get me some tow, I want to stop up that rime. 
A ravenous hawk pursued this ringdove over your 

nursery. 
I told your servant to rinse a tumbler but he would 

not do it. 
They seem to be ripe for revolting against their 

tyrant. 
We dare not insist on their adopting our rites. 
Did you believe that your rodomontade would 

frighten us ? 
A lawyer may wear a robe and be a dunderhead 

for all that, 
I believe that you romanize your talk in order to 

shew us that you are a great and learned latinist. 



OF TEACHIXG. 321 

A ropemaker wants hemp and a shoemaker wants 

leather. 
Do you not like to rove through this delightful 

grove ? 
I do not v/oncler that so rude a man should have 

shaken you so rudely. 
If thou dost not learn the rule, thou wilt never for- 
- g-t it. _ 
Every heifer and I believe every graminivorous 

animal ruminates. 
D ". you not mistake a runaway for a runagate ? 
Thou vnh not find any sabine in this swampy 

ground. 
I believe that by this time they must be safe at 

home. 
You may safely depend on our not risking our 

safety. 
You ought for your own sake to venerate this saint- 
like man. 
Did you never hear that in Turkey the women are 

for sale ? 
A body may be saline v/ithout makingyou salivate. 
I wish that you would not besmear the salver with 

^our salve. 
You must salute them first, if you want them to 

return your salute. 
A man may look sane and be insane at the same 

time. ^ 

You ought undoubtedly to feed them, but you ought 

never to sate or to glut them. 
I never read a more violent and insulse satire than 

this in my life. 
She lost all her money by gambling, save a poor 

guinea. 
A wind blowing from the sea may be termed a 

Seabreeze. 



3£2- lllE METKOS 

Might not a man speak sedately without having a 

sedate mind ? 
To Sfgrtgate the bran from the flour we employ 

a very fine bolter. 
I am going to mend your seine, though I have not 

torn it. 
He wants to seize my property, though I am not 

indebted to him. 
If you want to have a senate, you must build a 

senate-house* 
Your senile talk demonstrates your seniority. 
If \ou had any sense, you would not try to publish 

this nonsense. 
Do you believe that sensitive plants have a senso- 

rium ? 
They were not only made separately, but they 

were even made in separate apartments. 
Kow would you separate the wmt from the vinegar? 
Many plants do not grow sere in the winter. 
I wish that you would not disturb our sleep with 

your serenade. 
Every body, I believe, likes a serene sky and 

warm weather. 
I do not believe that thou wilt find any serpentine 

in our neighborhood. 
The first brigade did not serve above seven or 

eight months. 
If we learn any thing without understanding it, we 

are said to learn it by rote. 
A man may be bound tosermonize without liking it. 
Do you wonder that so servile a wight should have 

behaved so servilely. 
A master may be severe without having good 

servants. 
You may punish them, I ween, without handling 

them so severely. 



OF TEACfllNe. 325 

On a very warm dav we are prone to seelc for shade. 
A very strong man might shake a stouter bough 

than that. 
If thou wishest to get the seed thou must open the 

shale. 
Do you believe that a person might feel shame 

without blushing ? 
Every body hates and detests your shameful de- 
portment. 
May not a person endowed with a fine shape be 

termed a shapely person ? 
You do not like to work and yet you wish to share 

the benefits. 
You have sheathed your sword, but I have not 

sheathed mine yet. 
I do not believe that your brother ever lived in 

Yorkshire. 
We drove our sheep to the shore and there we 

shore them. 
Do not, in Spain and Italy, the priests shrive every- 
body ? 
You may be shrived not only at shrovetide but at 

any other time. 
You do not find a mahogany sideboard in every 

house. 
A prudent man ought not to side with either party. 
I am your servant, sir, but i am not your slave. 
We like to skate, but we do not like to slide. 
You may see a snail in the winter without seeing 

any slime. 
If I had to build a house, I would build it on a 

southern slope. 
She may have smiled without your remarking her 

smile. 
The king swore that he would smite them with' 

the sword. 



32^ THE METHOD 

Have you never seen any woman smo^e her pipe t 
An animal may be oviparous without being a snake, 

and viviparous without being a viper. 
I believe, my friend, that you mistake snakeroot 

for snakeweed. 
My father would not permit me to set a snare. 
I ordered the shoemaker to sole your boots this 

afternoouo 
Somebody told me that you have stolen something 

from me. 
Are you going to solve a problem without under- 
standing it? 
I am going to adapt this sordine to your trumpet. 
If you have a sore foot you ought not to walk 

about. 
You must not eat any souse, if you have a sore 

mouth. 
If you do not wish to lend me ) our hoe, you may, 

at least, lend me your spade. 
I had nothing but a sparerib for my breakfast. 
You want me to spare your life, though you would 
. not have spared mine if you had defeated me. 
Have you got this oil from the spikenard that you 

have reared in your garden ? 
I wish that you would nail this gate fast with a 

spike. 
If an animal breaks its spine, it must die, I believe. 
If you repair to that peak, you may see there tvtry 

spire and house in town. 
Spiteful and malignant men try to spite every body. 
Our spokesman regrets that he broke your spoke. 
Malignant sprite, we deride thy unavailing spite. 
We may stare at a thing though we have seen it 

before. 
A man may admire the starpaved firmament with- 
out being a stargazer. 



OF TEACrUNG. S25 

You want to starve an enemy that vou dare not 

fight. 

Your father may be a stately man, without being ^ 

statesman. 
Do you not intend to stigmatize the traitor? 
We had a very fine sundial, but somebody broke 

its stile. 
You must endeavor to finish the stone work in two 

weeks. 
You did not prevent the enemy from burning your 

store house. 
You say that you do not like an intense heat, and 

yet you heat your stove intensely. 
If you walk with long steps, you are said to stride. 
I see that you like these men, but you detest their 

strife. 
I do not believe that they would strike their flag. 
We must strive with might and main to avert the 

fatal stroke. 
I do not permit any body to stroke my horse. 
You ought to give that naughty stripling fifty 

stripes at least. 
You must not only divide it^ but you must also 

subdivide its parts. 
I want to sublimate this brimstone, but I have no 

retort. 
If you want me to understand you, you must not 

speak so sublimely. 
We admire your sublime sentiments, but we do 

not understand them. ^ 

The British dread our submarine warfare more 

than any thing else. 
Ought not your brother to be satisfied with a sub- 
ordinate post ? 
Do you believe that this shift would subs-erve our 

purpose ? 

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526 THE METHOD 

I did not hope that the uproar would subside so 
soon. 

The British ministry have subsidized the Aus- 
trian army. 

They ignore, perhaps, that we style this a stile. 

They inform me, that at length they have found 
out an antidote against its subtile venom. 

If you begin to subtilize it 1 have done with you. 

Flour, eminently fine, may be styled superfine. 

Your governor may be a good man without being 
superlatively pious. 

She fondly hopes to supervive her eldest brother. 

A supine man ought not to deride an indolent wo- 
man. 

Your brother told me your name, and your sister 
told me your surname. 

Would you not even wish to survive your wife ? 

A man ought never to swerve from the right path. 

Do you believe that swine pipes feed upon swine 
bread ? 

We are prone to sympathize with a being organ- 
ized like us. 

If you wish that 3^our v/ar should be prosperous 
for you, you must systematize it. 

I like to hear a good tale, but I abhor a talebearer. 

Do you ween that our government would tamely 
submit to your tyrant ^ 

I believe that this young man permits himself to 
tantalize your daughter. 

Do not forget to buy some tape for your sister. 

In this way you may hinder tare from growing 
among your rye. 

By tasting a tasteful thing we find out how it 
tastes. 

I do not believe that your brother would tempo» 
rize for your sake. 



OF TEACHING, 327 

If it had not rained last night, the rope would not 
. be so tense. 
If you want me to terebrate this board, you must 

lend me your auger. 
I wish that you would order them to terminate 

their foolish strife. 
You may alter your tone without altering your 

theme. 
I should prefer having a threadbare shirt to hav- 
ing a torn shirt. 
You strive to thrive by trade, and your brother 

wants to thrive by gambling. 
We have neither a king nor an emperor, and thus 

we need no throne. 
I have seen many a thunder shower, but I never 

saw a thunder storm. 
You are a tide waiter, and therefore you have a 

right to shut the tide gate. 
He may be a time server without giving you any 

timely help. 
A woman may tire you with her tiresome talk 

without being a tire woman. 
In Great Britain every landholder must pay the 

tithe to the bishop. 
I reprove your impious tenets, though I tolerate 

them. 
I tasted it, but I did not find it to be toothsome. 
A town may be tradeful without havinp; a seaport. 
I am ashamed for you to see you traipse in this 

way. 
I do not believe that her sight would throw him 

into a transc . 
If thou dost not understand a book, how wilt thou 

translate it ? 
We must hinder our transmarine enemy from 

sending a fleet to oar shore. 



S28 THE METHOD 

We determined to transmigrate before the war be- 

Do they believe that their plot did not transpire ? 

You ought to have drawn this line transversely. 

Your father strove in vain to traverse our plan. 

A great orator ought not to employ so trite a 

- trope. 

You may be a true lover without having any true 
love in vour o^arden. 

I paid twelve groats for this twine. 

I see nothing elegant in this book but its type. 

Would you not like to live in so delightful a vale ? 

Though you variegate every thing, yet you pre- 
tend that you do not like variety. 

Do you believe that a venomous animal venenates 
every fruit that it tastes ? 

I believe that your prating aunt likes to verbalize. 

W^e do not wish that you should verberaie him for 
it. 

An orator may be verbose without being versatile. 

Hast not thou taken this vine from our vineyard? 

I have no doubt but ultimately thou wilt beat thy 
enemy. 

Your ultramontane tenets do not agree with our 
belief. 

We have a mind to take your father for our umpire. 

Though he should be unarmed, yet he would un- 
doubtedly defend himself. 

You are not unauthorized, I believe, to fall upon 
them unaware. 

You may unbelieve an event, if you have no good 
authority for believing it. 

A bad man may die not only unbeloved, but also 
unbewailed- 

You may underline this word, but do not strike it 
out. 



OF TEACHING. 329 

My brother, I believe, would not undertake it for 
any thing in the world. 

You may unhorse a weak and timid rider with a 
violent blow. 

Are you not going to unlade your ship this after- 
noon ? 

Unyoke them both and let them graze in the 
neighbouring field. 

Your sister must be a very volatile young lady. 

May not a violent heat volatilize the hardest dia- 
mond ? 

I should not like to wade through a deep brook 
on a bleak winter day. 

If you die you fall asleep, but you do not wake 
any more. 

Every month you may see the moon in its wane. 

How* many wardmotes do they hold in London 
every year ? 

Do you ween that we have a wardrobe in our 
warehouse ? 

A wasteful man wastes more in a day than a fru- 
gal man wastes in a year. 

Might not so mighty a wave upset your ship? 

Her talk would not be wearisome to thee if thou 
wast in lave with her. 

She taught me to spin and I taught her to weave. 

You seem to have a frog in your windpipe. 

He made a vow that he would taste neither bread 
nor wine within a year. 

Before you take it in your hand, you ought to wipe 
it dry. 

I am told that you have lost your wife, but do not 
wish to wive again. 

After they had rested and eaten their hay I wanted 

to voke theme 

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3S0 THE METHOD 

They have determined to take up their abode in 
the temperate zone. 

They may be unwarlike, but I do not believe that 
they are unwary. 

Your untimely death would impel them to un- 
throne your father. 

LE = EL, and RE = ER. 

I do not doubt but thou wilt be able to outwit them, 
A thing may be admirable without being adorable. 
Do you not fondly hope that it would be available 

to you ? 
Your defeat would have been avoidable, if you 

had been able to avoid it. 
I verily believe that your sentiments are not 

avow able. 
May not a word be denominated an audible sign ? 
They have determined that you are not bailable. 
Though you are a believable man, yet I do not 

believe your story. 
The enemy hid some riflemen in an antre, shaded 

by some oaks. 
A strong bough may be bendable for a strong man. 
if we are not biameable, you ought not to blame us. 
I am not able to ride out with you, for 1 have 

sprained my bridle hand, and am not able to 

hold the bridle. 
Would not a mortal sin render you damnable ? 
Your grand father likes to dandle infants. 
Your tenets may be debatable without being defen- 
sible. 
If we may define a thing, we may term it definable. 
I wish that you would remove every defragrable 

body from this room. 
I term d«emandable every thing you may demaud* 



OF TEACHING. 331 

I am unable to demonstrate its truth, though I 

believe it to be demonstrable. 
We must endeavor to forget so deplorable an event. 
He would have endeavored to design it, if he had 

thought it to be designable. 
It may be determinable, though I am unable to 

determine it. 
Have you a mind to betroth your daughter to that 

detestable gambler ? 
If you are able to dilate a body, you may safely 

term it a dilatable body. 
I believe that you mistake a dimple for a pimple. 
A long and bloody war would entirely dispeople 

our empire. 
How long wilt thou be able to double thy stake ? 
An animal may be sharp sighted without being an 

eagle. 
For my own part I do not believe that they are 

eatable. 
If you are able to elude their snare, you may term 

it eludible. 
I am not able to improve it, though I believe it to 

be emendable. 
May not a woman be estimable without being ami- 
able I 
I have read your fable, but I do not admire it. 
I should have started a week ago, if the weather 

had been favorable. 
They are so feeble that they are unable to move. 
A man may be evil minded without being feeble 

minded. 
We fondle our daughter, but we do not fondle our 

son. 
The river may be fordable, about a mile higher up. 
Your brother had to deal with a formidable anta- 
gonist. 



3S2 THE METHOB 

Thou wilt not find any friable stone in our neigh- 
bourhood. 

If you separate the good from the bad, you are 
said to garble. 

You ought to gargle your mouth and throat every 
morning and after every meal, with fresh water. 

If you girdle a tree, you prevent its growing any 
further. 

I am a girdler, though I do not make any girdle 
belts. 

You must ask for some grantable thing, if you 
want me to grant your demand. 

I do not deem this house to be habitable in the 
winter. 

If you buy a spade, do not forget to get a handle 
made for it. 

An idle headed man ought not to reprimand an 
idle boy. 

We term ignitible every body that we are able to 
set on fire 

A man may have a vulgar mind without being ig- 
noble. 

I do not believe that so noble a poem would be 
imitable for that poetaster. 

Your mmd and heart seem to be alike impene- 
trable. 

If you believe her favor to be impetrable, you must 
endeavor to impetrate it. 

You have not the least ground for believing their 
metropolis to be impregnable. 

^ story may teem with improbable events, and yet 
be true. 

You bought an improvable farm, and yet you do 
not want to improve it. 

A sound may be audible for you and inaudible for 
a de^if man. 



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So foul a deed would stamp you with an indelible 

ignominy. 
If you believe your aid to be indispensable, j^ou 

are mistaken. 
They seem to slight the most inestimable gift that 

we have bestowed upon them. 
My ruin would have been inevitable, if I had not 

met with this benevolent man. 
A thing may be ingustable, without being impal- 
pable. 
This house would not be inhabitable in the winter. 
Do you believe that talents are inheritable ? 
A man may be a sordid weight, without being in- 
hospitable. 
A distempered man must be either sanable or in- 

s an able. 
Any thing that we are unable to feel, we ought to 

term insensible. 
If you are not able to part them, they must be 

inseparable. 
Any gas that may be drawn in with the breath, 

you may term inspirable. 
I do not like to deal with an instable man. 
They seem to harbor an insuperable antipathy to 

slaughter. 
Any thing that you are unable to get over, you 

may term insurmountable. 
A bodv may be ingustable and intastable, without 

being insensible. 
If you and your men had been truly brave, your 

post would not have been untenable. 
A heat that you are not able to bear, may be termed 

intolerable. 
Their friendship would have been invaluable, if it 

had been invariable. 
Do not forget that your oath ought to be inviolable. 



:>54< THE METHOD 

If you had inveigled her brother, she would have 
inveighed against you at a tremendous rate. 

You have it in your power to kindle in my breast 
either love or hatred. 

If you vt^ant to dry your wet kirtle, you must hang 
it up before and near the fire. 

I lent a ladle to your neighbor, but I would not 
lend any to you. 

So lamentable an event did not dishearten our 
hero. 

If you had thwarted so laudable an undertaking, 
you would have been detested by every body. ' 

You believe that you have found out the truth j 
but are you not liable to mistake ? 

I have been told that you did not pay more than 
half a livre for it. 

If our tenets were maintainable, he would un- 
doubtedly maintain them. 

Do you seriously intend to wear a mantle on so 
hot a day ? 

A man may be marble-hearted, without dealing in 
marble. 

How long would it take you to perform this ma- 
noeuvre .'' 

We made good our landing, maugre their heavy 
fire. 

A thing may be modifiable, without being move- 
able. 

My neighbour found this beetle on a fragrant 
myrtle. 

We have a navigable stream, but we have neither 
ships nor boats on it. 

A man may be a needle-maker, without doing any 
needle-work. 

If you are a nobleman, you ought to have a noble 
hearts 



dP TEACHING. 335 

You have never been notable either for bravery 
or for industry. 

Do you believe that I am able to love an odible 
person ? 

Are not you ashamed to dish up so palpable a 
falsehood ? 

Do you not feel your wealth to be a perishable 
good ? 

You are a personable man, and may therefore 
safely personate the king. 

You have bought a mortar but you have forgot 
to buy a pestle ! 

Do they intend to make gunpowder without nitre ? 

Lend me a pin or needle? that I may open this 
pimple. 

I never thought it probable that we should be de- 
feated. 

I wish that you would let me learn a more profit- 
ab e trade. 

I have been informed that the purple fever deso- 
lates your neighbourhood. 

Your fire would not be more redoubtable to us, if 
you were to redouble it. 

We removed every thing that we thought remov- 
able. 

I do not say that you are reprehensible for it. 

If you had not left this shirt here, it would not 
have been rumpled. 

She wore a sable gown, but she did not grieve for 
him. 

You would not have tumbled down, I ween, if the 
rundle had not broken. 

I am armed with a sabre, and you are armed with 
a sword. 

If you want to pound this saltpetre^ you must buy 
a mortar. 



336 THE MEl'HOD 

A man may be salvable, without being savable. 
I intend to transmit you the sample you ask for, 

by my brother. 
A man may like plain or simple ornaments, with- 
out being a simpleton. 
May not a body that emits sparks, be said to sparkle? 
Do not you like to ramble through a green field 

on a fine and warm spring day ? 
If you have neither a stable nor a horse, you need 

not keep a stable bo}^. 
If you have neither grain nor flour, you want no 

staple for either. 
Thunder and lightning startle brave men and 

timid beasts. 
Before you build a steeple, you ought to finish 

your poor house. 
You must be sensible, I ween, that the best horse 

may stumble now and then. 
If you permit him to swindle you, you are a sim- 
pleton. 
I like your table beer, but I detest your table 

talk. 
The barbarian threw a heavy stone at her right 

temple. 
They intend to demolish their theatre, and to 

build a temple in its stead. 
A grindstone may be moved either by a treadle 

or by a handle. 
You have doubled the first number, but you 

ought to have trebled it. 
So tremendous an uproar did not make him 

tremble. 
Have you a mind to trifle your time away and to 

play the fool for ever ? 
You must triple the sum, if you want to have this 

sword. 



OF TEACHING. 337 

I wish that you would not trouble me any more 

with your nonsense. 
Do you wish me to fondle so troublesome a guest? 
If you want it to trundle, you must let it tumble. 
If you want this turtle to live, you must keep it in 

sea water. 
Are you not ashamed to tweedle this venerable 

old man ? 
The needle entered the skin above the inferioi- 

vertebre. 
If you believe death to be unavoidable, then let 

us die like men. 
We are unable to gainsay an undeniable truth. 
Do you believe the high sea to be throughout 

unfathomable ? 
I do not believe your spindle to be unimprovable. 
Did you ever hear a female lark warble the morn- 
ing song ? 
You may hide your wimble under my wimple. 

T. not pronounced* 

Before you leave this room, do not forget to fasten 

that window. 
If thou dost not hasten, thou wilt undoubtedly be 

benighted in this dreary forest. 
An old huntsman told me that they nestle on oaks. 
A moveable form, upholding any thing, may be 

styled a trestle. 
Would you let your horse graze in yon thistly 

field ? 
You ought to order your gardener to dig up that 

thistle. 
Your friend delivered your epistle to me, but I am 

unable to read it. 
You are said to be a famous epistler, but I do not 

envy your fame. 

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BBS THE METHOD. 

The plain seemed to be bristled with pikes aftc^ 

bayonets. 
A smooth and solid body, softer than a bone^ but 

harder than a ligament, may be termed a gristle* 
If you are not a zealous apostle, you are no great 

ornament to your apostieship. 
I have seen and heard many a singing bird, but I 

have never seen a throstle. 
I do not like bustling any more than you i you 

have, therefore, no right to style me a bustler. 
If thou dost not listen, thou v^ilt not hear them 

rustle. 
How often must I repeat that I detest ombre more 

than any other game ? 
Do you not take time to be the best softener in 

the world ? 
A body, sparkling with light, may be said to glisten. 
If you take the trouble to moisten it yourself, you 

do not want a moistener. 
Do you wish that our ostler should water yoUr 



pony ? 



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